Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then you can watch a film and a series on Central all the way through , without having to wait from about five minutes to ten , almost , not literally , but almost through till about er five to eleven . |
| 2 | The government reckoned that Poles were having to cope with about as much economic pain as they would tolerate . |
| 3 | I think so , just about , now put those slippers on Arthur , you 've got a cold coming now you drink it while it 's hot , that 's a good lad oh I 've put the pudding on now , so it 'll have to steam for about two hours at least two and a half |
| 4 | discount , that amount would have to rise to about £440 . |
| 5 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 6 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 7 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 8 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 9 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 10 | I mean I have to cope with about five thousand different individuals each week erm at Portslade Community College , erm fifteen hundred full-time eleven to eighteen year olds , and the rest adults from the community coming in to use the college . |
| 11 | And then , you have to get to about three to four articles on that . |