Example sentences of "[pers pn] have about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I , I , I have about twelve workshops . |
| 2 | Er er what the honourable gentleman , my honourable friend reads out is certainly my view er we will erm of course engage in any discussions on this subject that come up i in the council of ministers but it would take quite a lot of convincing I think to myself and my colleagues , that any other form of election would be an improvement on first past the post , erm and er the ar , no I wo n't give way cos I have about four minutes left and er I do want to make a couple of other points . |
| 3 | I have about eight pints and I blank out . |
| 4 | Editor , — A B Kay 's article on alternative allergy underlines concerns I have about unproved treatment for ‘ allergy . ’ |
| 5 | I , I have about five or six groups , I can , I can go and give talks . |
| 6 | At least tonight I have about 45 minutes in which to speak , and whether I take that much time will depend on how we get on . |
| 7 | I have about forty pens at home . |
| 8 | I have about 3 times as much glass to look after . |
| 9 | ‘ I have about 22 in my first team squad and that 's too many , ’ said the Middlesbrough boss . |
| 10 | you have about five minutes of news |
| 11 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 12 | This process goes on until you have about half a teacupful of ravel left . |
| 13 | no you 're alright , you have about ten minutes with |
| 14 | You have about twenty minutes , listen , to do this in your own way . |
| 15 | Patten/Lawley : You have about 30 seconds Mr Kinnock to tell them why you wo n't say where you stand on this as the other leaders do . |
| 16 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |
| 17 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 18 | We care about low pay and low incomes and it 's estimated that in this country this so-called wealthy country that we have about eleven million people now on or just below E C poverty standards . |
| 19 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 20 | We do n't send more papers out to external referees because we do n't want to exhaust this valuable resource ( even though we have about 2500 referees on our database ) and because we are the best judge of issues like whether the paper belongs in the BMJ or another sort of journal . |
| 21 | ‘ We have about 200 in training in any one year . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have about 20,000 players in the country and we run a successful , well-structured league . |
| 23 | We have about 45 million people in England , whereas there are only 5 million in Scotland and slightly fewer than 3 million in Wales . |
| 24 | He says : ‘ We have about 70 fridges here . |
| 25 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of EIG . |
| 26 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of ETA . |
| 27 | ‘ Altogether we have about 60–70 people in London and 20 in Hong Kong , and all of them have access to our data in New York . ’ |
| 28 | It must be emphasized that , like them or not , metronome marks and associated forms of measurement , including the perspective gained from automatic mechanical instruments , are all the hard evidence we have about actual tempos of the past . |
| 29 | For the first time ever , we can see how the process of understanding language fits into the general picture we have about mental processes . |
| 30 | By extrapolating from present trends , but also from applying the theoretical knowledge we have about typical organisational behaviour , we can engage in some informed speculation . |