Example sentences of "which be [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wear contact lenses usually , but I have a pair of glasses which are now about seven years old . |
| 2 | If the load is maintained , the crack therefore accelerates rapidly and soon reaches its theoretical calculated speed which is generally about 38 per cent of the speed of sound in the material . |
| 3 | We have a form of presidential government in which she operates like a sovereign in her court ’ , which is just about the most toughly worded formulation of the case for Mrs Thatcher as Queen Boadicea driving a chariot of conviction politics through the conventions of collective Cabinet government . |
| 4 | The majority of c.c.d.s have around 500 stages , which is just about enough to give some sort of reverberation effect . |
| 5 | The stainless alloy we use is a ‘ 430 ’ type , which is just about as magnetic a stainless as you can find . |
| 6 | Furthermore , liking the bulbs for dividing is bound to disturb the roots of the roses , which is just about the worst thing you can do to them . |
| 7 | The Three Degrees which is just about what the temperature is . |
| 8 | This poorer quality is reflected in their price , which is normally about 30 per cent less . |
| 9 | The physiotherapist needs at least one plinth ( treatment couch ) , which , at about 40 inches ( about 1 metre ) , is wider than a manipulation couch , which is usually about 24 inches ( 60cm ) wide . |
| 10 | His word-picture also describes the typical Bronze- and Iron-Age European small dwelling developed from the wooden buildings of the Hallstatt and La Tène periods , from 700 B.C. : ‘ The wall , which is commonly about six feet high , declines from the perpendicular a little inward . |
| 11 | Some of the rooms are situated in the Minoa Sun annexe which is only about 100 metres away from the main building . |
| 12 | Vesuvius , which is only about ten kilometres from the centre of Naples and in one of the most densely populated areas of Italy , has an irregular cycle of eruptions with twenty-five to thirty years of quiet being followed by a major outburst , when a great plume of dust and ash from the volcano rises over the city , reaching many kilometres into the air . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got a Fender USA Strat which is only about four years old , but it 's a nice guitar . |
| 14 | The Communism in Parma bore , and still bears , very little resemblance to the Communism in other parts of Europe ; in fact it was different from that of Bologna , which is only about eighty kilometres away down the Via Emilia . |
| 15 | This is much longer than the age of the universe , which is only about ten or twenty thousand million years ( 1 or 2 with ten zeros after it ) . |
| 16 | Within half a century , 12 feet of the post was exposed , and in 1957 a new post was sunk to reveal the continuing story of the sinking surface level , which is now about 14 feet lower than it was in 1848 . |
| 17 | I think what they said in 1892 is true today … the population of Richmond , which is now about 8,500 , increases fourfold . ’ |
| 18 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 19 | The first of which was probably about twenty years after it was built . |
| 20 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
| 21 | There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside . |
| 22 | I picked him up and stumbled over the rough ground to the back gate of our garden , which was only about twenty yards away . |
| 23 | At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away . |