Example sentences of "[adj] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 2 | ‘ The All Blacks are inevitably nervous about a first Test at Christchurch , ’ added Fox . |
| 3 | British industrialists are getting agitated about an £8bn interest-free loan that they 've made to the Government . |
| 4 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 5 | Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago |
| 6 | In 1985 builder Tom Barnes became suspicious about a £4,000 interest charge for a three-month period . |
| 7 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 8 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 9 | did , got rid of that about a year , twelve , eighteen months ago |
| 10 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 11 | Straw plaiters started work at an early age and the occupation was a common one in the South Midland counties ; for instance , in 1871 about a third of all Bedfordshire girls aged between ten and fifteen were recorded in the census returns as plaiters . |
| 12 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 13 | You can complete the in about two weeks and sessions last about an hour . |
| 14 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
| 15 | ‘ You know your father almost went bankrupt about a year ago ? ’ |
| 16 | Very fashionable about a year and a half ago again , because all these things come round again do n't they ? |
| 17 | Young woman , aged twenty-nine , dead about a week the local bloke reckons . ’ |
| 18 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |