Example sentences of "[pron] is about a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I could have a pension which would be seven thousand six hundred and seventy three pounds a year which is about a hundred and twenty pounds |
| 2 | Not , not a lot at the moment , I do n't think , erm , the end of July erm there was eight hundred and something , but there 's been quite a few bills that have come out of it although that does n't include the two receipts that Maisie has just given me which is about a hundred and eighty , so that 's nearly another two hundred in , but we 're alright , we 're . |
| 3 | She is about a third the size of the air-conditioned monsters , with two-thirds fewer passengers , and she blends with the panorama of the Nile . |
| 4 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 5 | In nineteen eighty I think it was five hundred and twenty , and at the moment it is about a thousand and two . |
| 6 | As a result , it is about a million times more sensitive to our trail than we are . |