Example sentences of "be about [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you reckon we 're we 're four per cent you 're about four per cent below . |
| 2 | We had 80 per cent occupancy over the entire year , yet we 're about 25 per cent down on budget for those occupancy figures . ’ |
| 3 | Erm we have taken various steps immediately , one is that the vandalism that taking place over the erm we have immediately re-secured , I have to say there 's been about fifty erm tickets out to re-secure those those , that site over the summer but they have been re-secured and tomorrow morning there will be the commencement of bricking up of the doors and windows of the ground floor of block D , block . |
| 4 | The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s . |
| 5 | CDs are therefore very similar to negotiable money market deposits , although the yields are about 0.25 per cent below the equivalent period deposit rates because of the added benefit of liquidity . |
| 6 | House prices are about 45 per cent . |
| 7 | Erm just er when I first started , I 've already mentioned I think that erm there are about seventeen erm students at universities with major scholarships within the maximum of this erm hundred and fifty pounds a year and erm we inter had to interview all these erm applicants , erm which was n't a very arduous task because there were n't so many of them but |
| 8 | American Coal Enterprises say its steam loco will be 15 per cent efficient ( modern diesels are about 30 per cent ) . |
| 9 | In the northern temperate zone the values are about 50 per cent higher than these estimates , and in the southern temperate zone about 50 per cent lower . |
| 10 | In general , dwellings in rural areas and conurbations are about 25 per cent more likely to be in poor condition than dwellings in provincial towns . |
| 11 | Consequently , the highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas — in some cases almost 40 per cent at a time when general unemployment levels , according to the official figures , are about 6 per cent . |
| 12 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 13 | Accordingly , among 25 countries , the reduction of infant deaths alone would range from 5 to 40 per cent ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 , p.17 ) and for the same 25 countries , the average reduction in infant mortality would be about 10 per cent and in death rates of children aged 1–4 years , 21 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
| 14 | I 'll be about two mi I 'll be two seconds |
| 15 | Total union membership in RENFE appears to be about 46 per cent of the workforce . |
| 16 | The NEDA was still hopeful that gross national product ( GNP ) growth would be about 5 per cent in 1990 compared with an original projection of 6 per cent . |
| 17 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 18 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 19 | used to be about few p er shillings more do you see , er a tonne yes . |
| 20 | We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent . |
| 21 | Firstly , individual trade unions raise the real wages of their members at the expense of non-unionised workers — in practice wages obtained by collective bargaining tend on average to be about 20 per cent higher than other wages . |
| 22 | Run a program of this type on both your machine and your friend 's and compare results — your friend 's PC should be about 20 per cent faster , all other things being equal . |
| 23 | MALT for distilling whisky will be about 20 per cent of 's total sales in 1993 . |
| 24 | This turns out to be about 21.5 per cent of embedded overflow areas . |
| 25 | For example , when the standard rate was 30 per cent , the composite rate would be about 25 per cent . |
| 26 | Local authorities in London are estimating the figure to be about 15 per cent . |
| 27 | The establishments in India , with their low-salaried staff and their substantial share in the country trade , were self-supporting and profits on trade were about 5 per cent of turnover . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 30 | there 's about six erm , six sheets in it ai n't there ? |