Example sentences of "[ex0] be about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put another way , for every human being alive , there are about a million insects — and together these insects would weigh about twelve times as much as he does . |
| 2 | There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell . |
| 3 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |
| 4 | There are about a dozen kinds of gibbon , all from South-East Asia . |
| 5 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 6 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 7 | In later correspondence with the Board of Education , stretching over several years , it was pointed out that " in 1899 there were 243 deaf principals and teachers in the USA , while there are about a dozen in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 8 | There are about a dozen deer grazing . " |
| 9 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 10 | And there was this parish here , Wenhaston , and Westleton which is the next one , there were about a hundred and fifty men went to sea out of these two parishes . |
| 11 | By 1880 there were about a thousand hotels in the scheme which proved a resounding success . |
| 12 | There were about a thousand people round the fire . |
| 13 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 14 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 15 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 16 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 17 | There were about a dozen ‘ ordinary ’ cyclists and a contingent from ‘ Neatwork ’ at Coldstream , who brought a couple of recumbents , a duette ( rickshaw-type wheelchair ) , and a bike with a two-seater kiddy-trailer , fully occupied . |
| 18 | At one place there were about a dozen young women having a lunch together . |
| 19 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 20 | But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ There 's about a trillion to one chance of Senna coming in and I think Frank Williams would get lynched . |
| 22 | Then there there was about a thousand rounds of tonnite in the gun room in the magazine . |
| 23 | Oh there was about two dozen boys and a lot of men there , there was about a hundred working in that place then . |
| 24 | There was about a hundred with thin Martin on the other hand . |
| 25 | Absolutely tremendous , I mean it was like being inside erm with a lot of people with us , there was about a hundred , a hundred and fifty people here . |