Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 2 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 3 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 4 | However , waste polythene can be bought from the Netherlands for about £60 a tonne , including shipping costs . |
| 5 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 6 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 7 | The European Commission has now nodded through IBM France SA 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA for about $450m in IBM France bonds convertible into IBM Corp shares . |
| 8 | Because the shuttle will be out of contact with a TDRS for about half its 90-minute orbit of the Earth , scientists on board will be cut off from those on the ground who designed the experiments . |
| 9 | ‘ I had known Bob Payton for about ten years , since he opened the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory . |
| 10 | At the time there was a postal strike and I did n't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks . |
| 11 | That was the last time I saw David for about four years . ’ |
| 12 | Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has agreed to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc of Wichita , Kansas for about 3.35m new Brite Voice shares giving an indicated value of about $15.9m ; the combined companies would have had revenues in excess of $35m on a pro forma basis for fiscal 1992 . |
| 13 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 14 | And with a decent meal including large bottles of local beer for around £5 , there 's no reason why you ca n't treat yourself to the colourful ‘ Egyptian night out ’ with cabaret , belly dancing and a multi-course meal held regularly at the plush Ramses Hilton for about £25 . |
| 15 | The Zapotec culture flourished in Oaxaca in southern Mexico between about AD 200 and 800 . |
| 16 | Harper said : ‘ I went out with Rebecca for about three months , then I went out with Emma . |
| 17 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 18 | English Heritage has agreed to open Stonehenge from about 6am for the sunrise , but is closing the car park . |
| 19 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 20 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 21 | The final element of the geography of the South which contributes to this chapter 's paradox concerns its growth as a major manufacturing region of the United States since about 1960 . |
| 22 | Stravinsky himself upgraded quite a few of his own tempo indications , Nagano more so — there is a case for regarding Eumolpus 's solo at fig 118 ( track 2 , 8′41″ ) as too extreme : quaver=84 is the marking , Stravinsky is at about 100 , Nagano at about 125 — but I can find no evidence of undue haste . |
| 23 | Apart from getting arrested in Hungary because we apparently missed out the customs post and had driven about 3 miles from the border before being caught by a car and made to return , we arrived safety at Gyor at about 10.30 pm . |
| 24 | One Saturday at about 3 o'clock when the 2.47 had not long gone through and he had put the ‘ line clear ’ through , he was standing at the window and saw the lad . |
| 25 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 26 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ Two inmates were found unconscious in their cells on Saturday at about 2.55 pm . |
| 27 | Police said 65-year-old James McQuaker left his house in Wellbeck Avenue at about 9pm to close and lock up the Haughton Road service station before returning home twenty minutes later with cash and credit vouchers . |
| 28 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 29 | I mean what I 'd like to do to be , to be honest , I do n't know if we will do is er be at er , at er Borg by about half four , five o'clock |
| 30 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |