Example sentences of "[am/are] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 2 | Its members live in a constant state of irritation that their salaries are about a third of what ‘ yuppiewhite ’ expats make . |
| 3 | There are about a dozen kinds of gibbon , all from South-East Asia . |
| 4 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 5 | Put another way , for every human being alive , there are about a million insects — and together these insects would weigh about twelve times as much as he does . |
| 6 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 7 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 8 | In later correspondence with the Board of Education , stretching over several years , it was pointed out that " in 1899 there were 243 deaf principals and teachers in the USA , while there are about a dozen in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 9 | There are about a dozen deer grazing . " |
| 10 | In a world ranking of premature death before the age of 60 , Northern Ireland and Scotland are near the top and England and Wales are about a third of the way down . |
| 11 | There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell . |
| 12 | Both of these corpora are about a million words in size and are derived from a variety of domains . |
| 13 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |
| 14 | Be about a week |
| 15 | Be about an hour . |