Example sentences of "[prep] about the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 3 | for about the fifth time |
| 4 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 5 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 6 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |