Example sentences of "there [prep] about three " in BNC.

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1 I was there for about three and a half years .
2 I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school .
3 Keith stayed with us there for about three weeks .
4 He 'd have to pull it very tight and hold it there for about three minutes to make sure .
5 And he was out there for about three years , he come back home and of cou just travelled the country , again working on the farms and that .
6 It 's been sitting there for about three months .
7 I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there .
8 going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades
9 You just got but I 'll have to go there for about three years .
10 As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country .
11 Er so there will be er a loss to us there of about three hundred pounds because erm we were asking for something to be made and therefore I think I would say quite rightly but in view of this experience perhaps never again , er made some advance contribution , you know to the cost or made some , gave some money in advance blah blah blah .
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