Example sentences of "the [noun sg] about a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House debated the issue about a year ago and reached the conclusion , on a free vote , that that issue was not the highest priority call on the NHS budget . |
| 2 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 3 | If they all worked , every golfer would be driving the ball about a quarter of a mile . |
| 4 | Having walked all day at a great pace … we descried towards evening , to our inexpressible joy , the waggon about a quarter of a mile before us … |
| 5 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 6 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 7 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 8 | Discussions are continuing with the artist about a second work , but Wilson , on his way to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship , told The Art Newspaper that he doubted that the funds for a new commission would be forthcoming . |
| 9 | opened the door about a minute ago . |
| 10 | He 'd called the farm about a year after he left . |