Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 2 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 3 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 4 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 5 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 6 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 7 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |
| 8 | Some LEAs employ teachers to visit families with a pre-school child before they start school , usually for about an hour a week , to play with the child and involve the parents in finding out more about the child 's development and needs . |
| 9 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 10 | ‘ I anticipate that my husband will be home in about an hour . ’ |
| 11 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | Avoid going outdoors for about an hour or so . |
| 13 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 14 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 15 | ‘ Even while then it still had n't clicked in my brilliant brain why I was acting so , I put my foot down , and kept it there , and arrived here with about an hour to spare before your train was due in . |
| 16 | Caitlin will be here in about an hour . |
| 17 | Grandma 's be around here in about an hour . |
| 18 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 19 | For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute . |
| 20 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 21 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
| 22 | But that was , we were standing there for about an hour I should think it was . |
| 23 | and er , this is what I , this is what I wanted , to tie to the flagpole and left him there for about an hour he had his pasting as well . |
| 24 | I know and like on Thursday yeah I mean we 're gon na be there for about an hour and a half probably yeah , and I wan na go home and I wan na drop my bag off and I wan na change my clothes and that 's gon na be like seven o'clock or eight o'clock like cos I wan na come round to band practice tomorrow and I wo n't get there until bloody eight o'clock and miss half my bloody weekend . |
| 25 | Oh well when I got back from I sat in there for about an hour cos the new girls that were meant to be sleeping in there slept in Zoey and Lucy 's room . |
| 26 | ‘ The train from Castlebar is due there in about an hour . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll be there in about an hour or so , ’ Guido told her , as Ronni sat by his side stiffly , staring out the window . |
| 28 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |
| 29 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |