Example sentences of "about for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’
2 But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most .
3 He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days .
4 Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days .
5 To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years .
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