Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 2 | It used to be about thirty six did n't it ? |
| 3 | Used to be about four or five you know , aye . |
| 4 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 5 | ‘ In Victorian times they used to be about 35 inches wide ; now they can be as narrow as 30 inches . |
| 6 | Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds |