Example sentences of "it [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither pleasingly accelerative nor particularly sporting , it just about passes as a sporting saloon . |
| 2 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 3 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 4 | Well , it just about passes . |
| 5 | This year he seems to have got it just about right . |
| 6 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 7 | This survey suggests that the Health Department has got it just about right . |
| 8 | ‘ There were arms everywhere , pulling him back and tugging at his shirt , and they got away with it just about every time . ’ |
| 9 | Papa left him reasonably well provided for through more orthodox investments , but I imagine it just about breaks even . |
| 10 | Recent research shows the disillusionment is more widespread and no longer confined to the late thirties or early forties : nor is it just about career blockage or perceived failure . |
| 11 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
| 12 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
| 13 | Four more locks follow , Perry Barr 2nd Flight , it just about being worthwhile to launch between locks 8 and 9 . |
| 14 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
| 15 | now than it used to be , or is it just about the same ? |
| 16 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 17 | Is it just about what it describes ? |
| 18 | Lets face it just about everyone who can kick a ball scored against him last year ! ! ! |
| 19 | Strach 's had it just about — so Wilko 's decision to swap Rocky for White was a complete load of bollocks — if he ca n't manage players like Rocky and Cuntona then he should n't be a f*****g manager especially of a team with rather large delusions of grandeur . |
| 20 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 21 | The company might not have liked the idea very much , but rising sales figures for diesels made it just about inevitable . |
| 22 | The dust cover prevents the machine from sanding right up to return edges ; it keeps it away about 10mm ( ⅜in ) at the sides and 15mm ( ⅝in ) at the ends . |
| 23 | I 've done it now about four times and I am still scared when I do it . |
| 24 | From here , keep the leg straight and stretch it forwards about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) further — and then back to the holding position . |
| 25 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 26 | Be nice if you could get it , get it then if you felt like it afterwards about half past four or something you could just get out to get fresh to quick walk . |
| 27 | Well I actually went back and said I do n't think it 's going to cost anything , I told him original twenty four thou- , and I 've halved it too about twelve thou . |