Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] is about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early area of the Vale of York , near Boroughbridge , grower Andrew Chester says he is about halfway through his winter barley . |
| 2 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 3 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 4 | I think she is about 70 per cent right . |
| 5 | Er because of the problems the stock piles of coal at various pits , I think there is about forty five million tons stocked at various pits , they 'll still be using coal from Bywater and so that there 's no necessity to mine coal in such er vast amount . |
| 6 | … [ Take ] temperature — you 've got a thermometer in the car but you begin to feel what is about thirty degrees C. You sense that that 's about thirty . |