Example sentences of "about [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Keep the date free in your diary — October 13th , 1991 , at the National Agricultural Showground , Stoneleigh , Warwickshire — for a once-in-a-lifetime experience people will be talking about for the next 100 years . |
2 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
3 | The need to harness and utilise such skills becomes an urgent priority if the NHS is to survive the recruitment and retention crisis so talked about in the late 1980s . |
4 | erm , you know which is , we 've had more rain in the last fortnight than we have for about in the last three years . |
5 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
6 | I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes . |