Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses . |
| 2 | While I was n't exactly happy about this , it was interesting to see what happened ; the tip of the Plexaurelia branch which had landed in the mushroom polyps developed blister-like clear vesicles , the whole animal kept inflating and deflating itself more frequently than usual , and after about a week collapsed completely . |
| 3 | And after about a week , there 'll be no pain in it , and you 'll be doing it no bother at all . |
| 4 | Martin takes them on unamplified , and after about an hour 's struggle , wins the day handsomely . |
| 5 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
| 6 | ‘ At first the pilots and navigators will mostly go their separate ways and concentrate on the subjects peculiar to their own calling , but after about a week they will be crewed-up — one pilot , one nav/observer , and one nav/plotter to a crew on the bomber side and a pilot and a navigator on the PR — and from then on will attend lectures and do drills as crew members . |