Example sentences of "about the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got a job outside the home , it 's a good ideas to talk to your doctor and to your employer about the best time for you to stop work . |
| 2 | A decision needs to be reached about the best time in the day to hold the event . |
| 3 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 4 | There would , therefore be this degree of uncertainty At about the actual time at which the radiation was released . |
| 5 | I could n't spell and about the only time in your life you 're not allowed to use a dictionary is in an English ‘ O ’ level exam . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 8 | He received a lesser ban at about the same time for receiving three yellow cards too , and because his team have still at least one game to play , the Irish international must serve his ban immediately . |
| 9 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 10 | I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California . |
| 11 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 12 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 13 | The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way . |
| 14 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 15 | A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau . |
| 16 | About the same time in Iowa , a Quaker farmer called Jesse Hiatt discovered a sucker sprouting from the roots of a dead tree . |
| 17 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 18 | The break-in happened between 6.30 and 10.30pm on Thursday night but so far no witnesses have come forward to give more information about the exact time of the raid . |
| 19 | You have over DM 50 million tied up in the project but you are very patient about the eventual time of launch . |
| 20 | ‘ What about the last time of all ? ’ |