Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] about [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
2 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
3 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
4 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
5 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |