Example sentences of "which [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you recall that 's most important from your days as a drama student — which are about ten years ago ? |
| 2 | This is when the labyrinth is developing and the young babies , which are about 1cm long by this time , are taking their first of air . |
| 3 | ‘ The governors asked for ideas to improve the school and pupils voted to improve the toilets , which are about 40 years old . ’ |
| 4 | At this stage in their careers employees enjoy salaries which are about twice that received in their early twenties ( i.e. referring to their ‘ real ’ earnings when allowance has been made for inflation , etc . ) . |
| 5 | The term is applied to rugs which are about 8′ ( or two zars ) in length and 5 ′/6; ′ wide ( 2.44 × 1.52/1.83 m ) . |
| 6 | Within observational uncertainties these are the same as the solar relative abundances , which are about 0.16 for He/H 2 and about 8 × 10 -4 for C/H 2 , compared with about 0.11 and about 8 × 10 -4 respectively for the Jovian atmosphere . |
| 7 | The puppies , which are about eight days old , were discovered by a busy road side . |
| 8 | Looking first at the traces for the insert ( TA ) 10 ( Figures 1a and 2a ) it can be seen that there are nine cleavage products which have a similar intensity to that at the sequence CGC on the 5'-side ( above ) of the insert and which are about twice as strong as that at the AGC site . |
| 9 | When completed in about 18 months time , the stations , which are about four miles apart , will stop raw sewage from three outfalls that serve 42,000 people being discharged on to the foreshore . |
| 10 | Fucking about my height about my build , but he 's got fucking hands which are about three inches bigger than mine all round . |
| 11 | I got me 2,000 and averaged 55 , which were about 20 more than anyone else . |
| 12 | He managed to hack it forward just to the angle of the fairway , and had still not reached his opponents ' drives which were about thirty yards ahead . |
| 13 | On the broad canals of Yorkshire the locks were built to accommodate the sailing keels which were about 60 feet long and 14 feet wide . |
| 14 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that no Court of Attachment or Swanimote had been held in Salcey Forest since he became Ranger , ‘ and I doubt whether such Courts have been held ever since the Rangership has been in my Family , which is about 120 years ’ . |
| 15 | Our guests will stay either in the original hotel or the modern gastehaus which is about 100 yards away . |
| 16 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 17 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 18 | The chemical , which is about 150 times as toxic as cyanide , has turned up in the soil and in waters that flow into the Mississippi River at levels up to several hundred times those thought to be safe . |
| 19 | Unusually , however , the latest El Nino developed during May , rather than the usual season which is about five months later ( see box ) . |
| 20 | They assembled , on 18 May 1689 , in Glen Roy [ or Glenroy ] in Inverness-shire , near the hamlet of Roybridge [ or Roy Bridge ] , which is about ten miles [ 16 km ] north-east of the site of the future Fort William . |
| 21 | It would have been too expensive in electricity to pipe hot water from the house , which is about 40ft away , although the pipe run could have followed the cold water supply , which is taken , underground , from the house . |
| 22 | It 's made from a length of airline which is glued with silicone sealer to a length of thin , but strong dowelling rod , which is about 6″ longer than the height of the tank . |
| 23 | This is similar to the limit placed on the companion to PSR B1855+09 which is about 5 times more distant . |
| 24 | When you do want to use the floppy drive it connects to the printer port via a cable which is about 10 inches long . |
| 25 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 26 | There are various roads that you can take to get from Bayonne to Biarritz , which is about five miles south-west of Bayonne . |
| 27 | How , for example , does my left cerebral hemisphere , which occupies the left half of my skull , talk to the right cerebral hemisphere , which is about three inches away ? |
| 28 | Isolated PHB powder , which is about 70% crystalline , has no C-NMR spectrum at these temperatures . |
| 29 | When it does happen , which is about fifteen , twenty percent there is a successful well , pregnancy baby at the end of it . |
| 30 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |