Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for about " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 2 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 3 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 4 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 5 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 6 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 7 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 8 | Where we were dru , the spi , the Espinear used to be drummed down for about five , six , seven years . |
| 9 | And the fact that a package trip can be snapped up for about £600 has put the exotic destination within the reach of many Britons . |
| 10 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 11 | But , you know , I mean , if the Uni goes to ten thousand in what what is it , it 's getting up for about ninety five , ninety six ? |
| 12 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |