Example sentences of "[verb] to be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure for 1992 is expected to be about 950 . |
| 2 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 3 | The six year mortality from CHD in a population like this , getting only their usual physician 's care , was expected to be about 29 per 1000 . |
| 4 | We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent . |
| 5 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 6 | ( It also renders Tongan maps a most inconvenient shape : to accommodate all the Friendly Islands and all the Tongan seas , a scale map has to be about five times as long as it is wide , though nearly all the population and commerce is bunched in the islands in the far south . ) |
| 7 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 8 | Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer . |
| 9 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 10 | The disk quota for the LIFESPAN Manager 's account needs to be about 10000 blocks ( for the Installation Directory ) . |
| 11 | It needs to be about half a millimetre thick to absorb the whole solar spectrum and , since it 's an expensive material , silicon-based solar cells are comparatively expensive to make . |
| 12 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 13 | Kayaks such as the Europe and Mirage are good examples here , tending to be about four metres long . |
| 14 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 15 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 16 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 17 | They seemed to be about four ninety instead of little plan ones , if you 're gon na have a top as well it 'll be a bit more expensive , these it ? |
| 18 | She seemed to be about seventeen or eighteen years old . |
| 19 | The church in Wales er and and from a a survey of one church in Church of England in Hemel Hempstead , I discovered that their rate seemed to be about thirty two P per mile . |
| 20 | She seemed to be about sixty . |
| 21 | The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard . |
| 22 | The promised 80Mhz HyperSparc is thought to be about four months behind the 66.7MHz part — Richards says there is a single completed 80MHz module in existence right now . |
| 23 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 24 | These rocks , now thought to be about 650 million years old , were believed to be completely unfossiliferous . |
| 25 | Nobody has counted science teachers for many years but there are thought to be about 30 000 , so 6000 more could be needed . |
| 26 | The man , thought to be about 30 , appeared at Darlington Magistrates Court on Monday where he was charged with the theft of jeans from Marks and Spencer . |
| 27 | There are thought to be about three times as many species of insect as of all other kinds of animal put together . |
| 28 | Two men thought to be about 19 struck when the 18year-old was on his way from work in Crown Street , Darlington , with the firm 's takings . |
| 29 | The distance is thought to be about 8000 light-years , and each cluster is 70 light-years in diameter . |
| 30 | She was the daughter of an old and scholarly man ( whom Alice thought to be about ninety-five ) and lived on the outskirts of Flaxthorpe . |