Example sentences of "about a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually we 've finished with lunch by about a quarter past one . |
| 2 | Yeah I I usually find myself having just deposited Spike at the station at about a quarter past nine and then I 'm in town and er able to do things in town . |
| 3 | At around about a quarter past eleven , with Jenny . |
| 4 | Jenny my guest at about a quarter past eleven . |
| 5 | ‘ About a quarter past ten . |
| 6 | ‘ About a quarter past eight , Inspector . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 8 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 9 | I was expecting to wait till about a quarter past seven . |
| 10 | wants to see us about a quarter past two |
| 11 | Should eat them about a quarter at a time . |
| 12 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 13 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll leave Thunder Bay at about a quarter to one , ’ Nell said , ‘ so we 'll have lunch soon after . |
| 15 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
| 16 | I get up when the children wake up about a quarter to eight . |
| 17 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 18 | And in the afternoon I think er it was about a quarter to three till four , and that was er Sunday School . |
| 19 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 20 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 21 | The balance-of-payments deficit was expected to fall by about a quarter to FMk18,000 million . |
| 22 | An analogue watch user will just glance at the timepiece and say , ‘ … it 's about a quarter to five ’ . |
| 23 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 24 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 25 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 26 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 27 | The actual pension that was to be provided , about a quarter of average earnings , was rather modest in comparison to the pensions provided in most other Western European states . |
| 28 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 29 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 30 | The songs are carefully arranged , played with the anonymous perfection we 've come to expect from people like the Floyd , and last about a quarter of an hour . |