Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must been about nineteen . |
| 2 | I forget how many golf courses there are in my constituency , but there must be about 10 . |
| 3 | ‘ From what I 've seen , I imagine there must be about five feet of water in the basin at high tide . |
| 4 | I mean , there must be about seven boards in all . |
| 5 | ‘ There must be about half a pound of sugar in that pot . ’ |
| 6 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 7 | At the end of last year , some 6,400 staff were employed in manufacturing-related activities , but there should be about 1,100 fewer by December 1993 . |
| 8 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 9 | You know there 'll be about fifteen or twenty slides |
| 10 | two lots of soup and there 'll be , it wo n't be a full bowl for you tomorrow , but there 'll be about half a bowl unless you want it now ? |
| 11 | Now then , after they cut the in the farm , all the rakings erm there might be about four or five loads there do you see . |
| 12 | I think there could be about fifteen trees in there , so far . |
| 13 | But er as a rule there 'd be about sixteen or there about . |
| 14 | Oh I should say there 'd be about thirty pupils there , mixed boys and girls . |
| 15 | There 'd be about two or three hundred . |
| 16 | Each man then , there was about , there 'd be about four or five men there , all had a number of girls working for them , and er they had to pay the wages out of what they earned . |
| 17 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
| 18 | Oh I should er I should think there 'd be about ten . |
| 19 | And there 'd be about ten or P ten or twelve people fucking watching Jerry walk up walk round that corner . |
| 20 | A complete new industry in straw baling would spring up , because there would be about 3,000,000 acres to be baled ; transport would be required to carry the straw bales to other sites , and these could be situated in high-unemployment areas ; the livestock industry would be required to expand to produce the extra million calves required . |
| 21 | Erm at the time when I took er office as a shop steward , er there was approximately two hundred and fifty apprentices and er there would be about six hundred shop floor workers and the rest er were complement to the staff . |
| 22 | normally he said , he said well there would be about six hundred . |
| 23 | She said there would be about 150 spending cuts in Mr Clinton 's economic agenda , amounting to about $34 billion , but she declined to say whether this included health care savings . |
| 24 | There will be about 1,500 polling stations , though 1,800 were planned . |
| 25 | By the year 2020 there will be about 8,100 million , and by 2100 perhaps 11,300 million , or more than twice present levels . |
| 26 | And there 's there will be about four thousand to do . |
| 27 | ‘ There will be about five hundred , ’ we were told . |
| 28 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | There will be about two million more people in England in the year 2001 than in 1986 . |
| 30 | When all the death duties have been paid , there will be about three thousand pounds left and that is left to you , Sara , unreservedly . " |