Example sentences of "[unc] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using .
2 When my grandfather died in er just about that year .
3 I have n't had it above er above about eight grand I think .
4 There 's er already about twenty people going .
5 And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it .
6 Oh er probably about twenty two , twenty three thousand .
7 Er probably about three years , and I 've had no dodgy calls .
8 Er probably about half , we 're half here
9 But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years .
10 And er maybe about five six years ago , a parcel of blankets came from Iceland for the Longhope lifeboat , from this same woman , and there had been no contact whatsoever between the time she was rescued and then , which was amazing .
11 Well he 'd got a , the little marker , th well about two and a half feet marker .
12 I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator .
13 at erm four-ish about four
14 And er but it was only about half past five I did n't I never stopped till the I just kept going now tha well about half past four , I started to pack up and I realized my sandwiches were still in my snack box so I I 'd I 'd had one one earlier on whilst I was still working but yes the lady there she made us a couple of cups in the morning , er cu cup of coffee , I think about what yeah about half ten time but the time I painted a little bit and I thought oh I 'll stop and have a fag , with my coffee and I had a cup of tea later on in the afternoon but er I did n't stop , I kept going , you know and then course by time I got to my drink , it was cold it was cool , so you drink it straight down
15 Erm maybe about three quarters .
16 Well a lot , a lot of people er er do er ju just about three weeks ago two women from our department retired so we had er we had a night out up in , that 's where they live , so there is that kind of thing ,
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