Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
2 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
3 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
4 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
5 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
6 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
7 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |