His quick guess was that Moore had been dead about two hours, and the final report more or less agreed with him.

But if he should happen to fall down dead, about four in the morning of April seventeenth would be a good time.

As I was soon to learn, it didn't matter anyway, since she had already been dead about twelve hours.

She was pronounced dead about two and a half hours later.

The state medical examiner said she had been dead about two months.

He had been dead about a half hour by then.

We were dead in the water for about six or seven minutes.

He's been dead about two hours, I should say, making the time of his death around half past eleven.

They said that she had been dead about a month.

There was no sense of being dead about the serpent.