Example sentences of "[prep] about the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 2 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 4 | for about the fifth time |
| 5 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 6 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 7 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 8 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 9 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 10 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 11 | The earliest known whales date from about the same time , but in this case the situation is slightly more complicated , in that these early whales were very similar to modern ones , and could be big — up to 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 12 | From about the same time onwards , Catholic books and pious objects began to be used more sparingly — or at least more discreetly — in most parts of the country . |
| 13 | There would , therefore be this degree of uncertainty At about the actual time at which the radiation was released . |
| 14 | When the temperature peak was at about the normal time , the patient showed a temporary remission of symptoms ; when the temperature was timed too early she tended to feel depressed ; and when it was timed too late she tended to experience mania . |
| 15 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 16 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 17 | At about the same time , British Telecom are also hoping to introduce a formal code of practice . |
| 18 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 19 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 20 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 21 | At about the same time came the Immorality Act , which made sexual relations between different races a crime against the state . ’ |
| 22 | At about the same time , Nadia Thalmann began work on a new project at the University of Geneva , animating synthetic actors using artificial intelligence and robotics . |
| 23 | At about the same time , the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology was working on what it ambitiously claimed would ultimately be the first full-length computer-generated feature , The Works . |
| 24 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |
| 25 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 26 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 27 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 28 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 29 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 30 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |