Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] is about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you do want to use the floppy drive it connects to the printer port via a cable which is about 10 inches long . |
| 2 | Sheila was saying that the council , the council one is about sixty pound a week |
| 3 | We 've got to cross the river to get to the nearest shop which is about two miles away ; and in the winter when the weather is bad we 're more or less cut off . |
| 4 | Unusually , however , the latest El Nino developed during May , rather than the usual season which is about five months later ( see box ) . |
| 5 | The theorist is quite in line really with the reflector the average there is about twelve and a half . |
| 6 | From the seventh month onwards there is a marked increase In weight and by the end of that month it is about two thirds of the length and almost a third of the weight which it will achieve by birth . |
| 7 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 8 | ‘ She was standing about six feet away when Stuart grabbed the handle of the grill door which is about two feet above his head . |
| 9 | There is a large tower at one end of the church which is about twenty five metres high . |
| 10 | Given the common values of E and p in structural solids we find that the speed of sound in these substances is very high indeed : for steel , aluminium and glass it is about 11,000 miles an hour or 4,800 metres per second , which is much faster than the speed of sound in air . |
| 11 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 12 | Is the on the C V T , but again it 's , it 's easier to look at something when we 're talking about this , so I 'm going to ask you to look at the Covermaster rate book , which does n't have page numbers , but I want you to find the allocation to units table which is about four or five pages in . |
| 13 | Having survived a British pre-qualifying event last week for a wild card place in this week 's draw , Ahl said she felt she had nothing to lose against a player who is about 200 places higher in the world rankings . |