Example sentences of "they [vb base] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He uses his enlarged tail fin to regularly splash them with water , until they hatch about two days later . |
| 2 | The first of these was written in 1928 and they number about 150 . |
| 3 | ( They number about 6,000 , about 1.5 per cent of all listed buildings . ) ; |
| 4 | ( They number about 20,000 — some 5 per cent of the total . ) ; |
| 5 | ( They number about 400,000 . ) ; |
| 6 | They foregather about eleven . ’ |
| 7 | They occupy about 50 per cent of all hospital beds . |
| 8 | They send about half this size . |
| 9 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 10 | Together they provide about 60 per cent of the housing for single people and almost a quarter of all wheelchair access dwellings . |
| 11 | They cost about £60 from pro shops , and all good sport and department stores . |
| 12 | Although they are good birds for many beginners , they cost about £700 , which makes them too expensive for all but the most dedicated . |
| 13 | Yeah it depends , well you can get get it to run through copies but the problem is that the cartridges for these printers they , they cost about fifty pounds . |
| 14 | Made from hardwood and softwood they cost about £1.25 each to make , and take no time to construct . |
| 15 | They cost about £26.99 and £58.99 respectively |
| 16 | I think we had them in our last and the they cost about fifty pence each . |
| 17 | They cost about 50 pence each to make , but sell for an average of £12.99 . |
| 18 | They cost about fifteen pounds . |
| 19 | No way , bloody hell , they cost about four hundred quid the paving stones |
| 20 | oh yeah its army property , must cost about , they cost about eighty quid or something |
| 21 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 22 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 23 | The players respond so slowly it 's like playing via satellite , and they jump about 300 feet into the air to head the ball ! |
| 24 | The annual migration of some one and a half million wildebeest is an awesome spectacle as they travel about 800 kilometres in search of water and green pastures for survival . |
| 25 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 26 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 27 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 28 | They import about 80% of their liquid milk , and much of the rest of their food supply . |
| 29 | If calories are a terminal concern , forget the mince pie altogether — they average about 220 calories each — and just settle for the yoghurt . |
| 30 | They variously reported : " Most of them get married when they get about 20 " . |