Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 2 | By 4.30 somebody says , ‘ They 're going to wrap in about five minutes and have a big spread over at the sound stage . ’ |
| 3 | One rat might be taught to run , and then taught three hours later to stand still ; another rat might be taught to stay still about six hours after it was taught to run . |
| 4 | This last figure represented a fall in the deficit from 7.5 to 6.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ; the proceeds from privatization for the year were forecast at 2.5 per cent of GDP , and as a result of tax reforms direct tax revenues were expected to rise by about 22 per cent over 1990 . |
| 5 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 6 | Detractors of what has been achieved so far in Docklands , 10 years after the LDDC 's inception , fail to remember that there is one other artery into the area that will have a positive effect on commercial property : the underground road tunnel known as the Limehouse Link , which is expected to open in about eight months ' time , eliminating tedious congestion at Tower Bridge and Wapping . |
| 7 | It 's going to finish up about ten yards in front of me . |
| 8 | Smugglers have also been intercepted taking tusks out of Ethiopia , which is estimated to have only about 2,400 elephants , down from about 8,700 in 1986 . |
| 9 | However , expenditure on social services and education was expected to rise by about 8 per cent . |
| 10 | Gross national product ( GNP ) was expected to grow by about 6 per cent in 1990 but this had to be seen against a similar percentage inflation rate . |
| 11 | she said was she was going to go up about twelve ? |
| 12 | Injected at 17 km , a given mass of oxides of nitrogen was estimated to have only about half as great an effect on ozone as when injected at 20 km ( figure 6.1 ) . |