Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Sumerian burial in northern Iraq has been dated to about 2000 BC . |
| 2 | The number of sets in the Seamer area has been cut to about 20 , a quarter of the total that existed in his youth , says the amiable grandfather . |
| 3 | Left : This hair has long top layers and a slight natural wave , which has been emphasised with about 15 medium and large rollers . |
| 4 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 5 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 6 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 7 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 8 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 9 | Drinking too much alcohol has been linked to about 3% of cancers , specially those of the mouth , voice-box , gullet and liver . |
| 10 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 11 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 12 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 13 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 14 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 15 | We gain an impression of the quantities of oak involved from the estimates for the building ; the 55 m³ ; would have been obtained from about 18 mature oaks . |
| 16 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 17 | The photograph must have been taken from about twelve feet in front of her , where I surmise Summerchild 's desk was . |
| 18 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 19 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 20 | Notice of the application for the injunction had been given at about 11 a.m. and the hearing took place after lunch . |
| 21 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 22 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 23 | Eastern spinner dolphins had been reduced to about 20 per cent of their original numbers , and the Costa Rican spinner dolphin ( a subspecies ) numbered only 9000 . |
| 24 | The PIMS exercise was subsequently taken over by Harvard University and by the mid-1980s a data base had been established including about 250 companies which have provided information on about 3,000 SBUs . |
| 25 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 26 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 27 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 28 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 29 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 30 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |