Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] about [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting question is whether the reform to regulations regarding fee structures in 1982 and , to a lesser extent , the greater freedom architects enjoyed from about this time to practice in a less restrictive manner have influenced the pattern of events . |
| 2 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 3 | Science was being taught in public schools and in grammar schools , and there were courses in universities , which in Britain began at about this time to catch on — this was the era when the great municipal universities started to flourish , though it was to be some time before they received government grants . |
| 4 | The maid of all work also died at about this time and was not replaced . |
| 5 | When his father died in April 1617 he was living in Braintree , Essex , probably working in the shop of John Lawrence , grocer and apothecary , and one of the leading townsmen , whose daughter Mary he married at about this time . |