Example sentences of "you have [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 How many pages have you done ? look at the spacing out I mean you 've probably got about three words .
2 All day you feel as if you 've just had about ten handjobs .
3 You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage .
4 You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four .
5 but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay
6 if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ?
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