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Meanings of worked about in English

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Usage of worked about in English
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A little town like this, probably he worked about three different jobs.
The passage
2
After the war I worked about for this one and that one.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
3
The SUM worked about as well as the Grigri for single-rope rappelling.
Rock and Ice Magazine
4
Col. Watkins worked about 300 hands-generallyhad one negro out hunting runaways.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
5
The result: It only worked about 40 percent of the time.
Wired
6
The creatures that worked about me were quite simple and friendly.
Pellucidar
7
He worked about the place during the day, helping his father and mother.
The Beginner's American History
8
She worked about the room until Drouet put in appearance at five o'clock.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
9
That ban has worked about as well as Prohibition did.
Reuters
10
I worked about the hardest twenty-four hours of my life getting the stuff ashore.
Greenmantle
11
I have worked about all night over it, and it gets tighter and tighter.
The Boy Scouts on a Submarine
12
We all worked about eighteen hours a day, sometimes more.
A good woman
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He was a man worked about the house and grandma was a field woman.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
14
A bush telegraph, you see, is mostly worked about the neighbourhood he was born in.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
15
To do this it must be worked about in a basin with a wooden spoon.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery: A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Di...
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After I'd worked about an hour, Jason came in.
Dead as a doornail
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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