Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It expects to release a total two or three products this year , but O'Connell reckons that the company 's entire range should be covered within about three years . |
| 2 | Corporal Bromby 's team are on task north of the Antelope Road changing a B81 — they should be finished in about three hours . ’ |
| 3 | The result of this inquiry should be known in about two weeks . |
| 4 | You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that . |
| 5 | think we we 're talking about hectares in this case , we 'll be talking around about twenty twenty hectares . |
| 6 | Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years . |
| 7 | Data collection and interpretation will be completed in about 2 years after which a decision will be made on whether to drill . |
| 8 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 9 | For even better bedding , prepare the site , then lay an even bed of mortar over an area which can be paved in about half an hour . |
| 10 | The Los Angeles-San Francisco drive can be completed in about nine hours , but to digest the scenic delights fully and sample the occasionally bizarre sights along the way will take take two or three leisurely days , stopping on a whim at one of the hotels or bed and breakfast inns that proliferate along the way . |
| 11 | The updating task can be completed in about 15 minutes . |
| 12 | With the availability of α-interferon , termination of the viral replicating phase can be induced in about 30 to 40% of the patients . |