Example sentences of "likely to be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workforce , 4,300 before the revolution , is down to just over 3,000 ( including 1,000 employees on short-time ) ; the final figure is likely to be about 2,000 . |
| 2 | First , the production of letters : The average number of letters per applicant is likely to be about three . |
| 3 | At Ellesmere Port , production was likely to be about 10,000 less than the 131,000 in 1992 . |
| 4 | After the election , there are likely to be about 30 Etonians on their benches , compared with 43 in the last Parliament and 68 the last time the party was led by one of their number ( Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 ) . |
| 5 | Thus , while almost all scientists are — at the time of writing — convinced from the evidence that change in climate is under way and that regional effects may be much greater than the global average , the magnitude of the latter is now thought likely to be about half of what was predicted only 5 years ago . |