Example sentences of "about [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 2 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 3 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 5 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 6 | But there always remains still one point of complaint by some members of the public , that is that the grass that 's cut does tend to blow about , but if the cutting is frequent , there 's less grass t to blow about at a given time . |
| 7 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |