Example sentences of "about [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 2 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 3 | Of that hour , about half of the time will be spent taking notes of the patient 's problem and explaining about hypnosis in general and regression in particular . |
| 4 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 5 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 6 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 7 | Hereward was about fifteen at the time . ’ |
| 8 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 9 | And she was a mother too — she and Varna had a child — a little girl who was about four at the time . |
| 10 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 11 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 12 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |