Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 2 | It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out . |
| 3 | Before you get the bills it 's about eight weeks they said now . |
| 4 | After about eight weeks he was discharged home , although he was still confined to a wheelchair . |
| 5 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
| 6 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 7 | After about 30 years they would support ling and heather , then gorse would become established . |
| 8 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 9 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 10 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |
| 11 | ‘ After about 45 seconds it stopped and I managed to get out . |
| 12 | However , feeding is critical and soldiers who are unfed ca n't fight , indeed after about forty-eight hours they fall over ! |
| 13 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 14 | oh about six weeks I think he was on er and then he decided he was well enough to go back to his |
| 15 | About six weeks I think . |
| 16 | Thought we might have Joanne and Paul round over the next couple of weeks or something before the wedding pre-wedding , it 's only about six weeks you know till their wedding ! |
| 17 | After about six weeks you know . |
| 18 | But after about six weeks it gets rubbed off a little bit when you find out the practicalities of the job rather than the , y'know , the theory . ’ |
| 19 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 21 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 22 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 23 | Oh he 'd been ill for about six months I think , but erm |
| 24 | There are only about six mechanisms you actually need to know . |
| 25 | The meal bore some resemblance to Filippo 's formula ; after about six courses you realise you 're still in the thick of the antipasto . |
| 26 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 27 | About three things they said that was in the parcel we never had . |
| 28 | But erm I think last year we w Was it about three hours they went , last year ? |
| 29 | Yeah , but it 's quite , I do n't know how to , it 's about three hours I should think . |
| 30 | ‘ In about three minutes we shall have one or two bombs from the German mortars falling near here , ’ he remarked , as he started again on his steak and kidney . |