Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 2 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 3 | And so I tell you we slammed the window down and just ducked for about an hour . |
| 4 | Nothing happened for about an hour . |
| 5 | They walked for about an hour before arriving at their destination . |
| 6 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 7 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 8 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 9 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 10 | That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population . |
| 11 | The next Saturday , armed with my pocket money , I waited for about an hour before the cheap-jack came to the knives , which after a lot of spiel were offered for sixpence — all I possessed . |
| 12 | Back in his small room , Sandison lay down on the bed and slept for about an hour and a half . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 14 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 15 | We stayed for about an hour , then with the sisters ' greetings ringing in our ears rejoined our escort outside the walls and continued our journey . |
| 16 | We sat for about an hour waiting for the bargemen to wake . |