Example sentences of "about [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 2 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
| 3 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 4 | Another joke posed the question about how long the war would go on , to which the answer ran : ‘ Until Goebbels 's trousers fit Göring . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Still no one is quite clear about how long they will last . |
| 6 | When the inquiry first opened , there were varying predictions about how long it would last . |
| 7 | About how long would each of these two journeys to the frontier take by car , at about 60 k.p.h. ? |
| 8 | If a man drinks 6 pints of beer in fairly rapid succession , about how long will it take to clear all the alcohol from his body ? a. 6 hours b. 9 hours c. 11 hours d. 13 hours |
| 9 | Before having an alarm installed , make careful inquiries about how long the company 's been in business . |
| 10 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 11 | The details in the text also specify who ( parents or professional ) does what and about how long each step should take to complete with parents . |
| 12 | Surprising as it may seem in the 1980s , there was great uncertainty both within Japan and outside about how long the boom would last . |
| 13 | Asked once about how long he thought the movie industry could last , he snapped : ‘ I never make predictions , especially about the future ’ . |
| 14 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 15 | If the answer is still no , then you really need to think hard about how long it took to produce the material and whether that expenditure of time was justified . |
| 16 | We welcome the Government 's express commitment to ring-fence the funds that the regional health authorities will administer but we remain concerned about how long that will last . |
| 17 | About how long have erm , we got . |
| 18 | Would you like to hazard a guess about how long the string might be ? |
| 19 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |