Example sentences of "'s [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you realise it 's somewhere about three hundred and fifty thousand chartered engineers in th U K as a whole you 'll see most of them belong to the three major organisations . |
| 2 | But really it 's only about three hours . |
| 3 | There were , you know , wee bits of Lego , and a broken Action Man and that — must have belonged to wee Steven , that 's Mr Fleming 's wee boy , he 's only about three , I saw him with Mr Fleming in Woolworth 's in Sauchiehall Street last Saturday , and he 's absolutely gorgeous . |
| 4 | But when he asked to bring Bobby Hunt he was careful to explain why : ‘ He 's quite talented and would enjoy making drawings so enormously , as he never seems to get out of town : please do n't hesitate to say no if it would be akward [ sic ] , he 's only about eighteen and quite manageable , and we will bring some food … ’ |
| 5 | And there 's only about three marks for it anyway so . |
| 6 | And it 's only about two or three five marks . |
| 7 | So we 'll cut it all down so there 's only about half of it that you need to learn okay and I 'll print you a table out on the computer like that and then you can ask your mum to ask you them . |
| 8 | It 's only about a quarter of an acre , but it 's quite idyllic , and within reasonable reach of home . |
| 9 | Well , erm a lot of your tax relief under the MIRAS system , which you 're aware it gives you tax relief at source up to thirty thousand , has been absorbed up here , that 's where most of your tax relief is , so down here the tax relief on the capital element is nil , and of , it 's only , if it 's only about three thousand outstanding , I might say , well , get rid of that , you know , just , just erm er cash it , and then you 've got the l you c can forget your mortgage commitment altogether . |
| 10 | That 's only about two month ago is n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ But the girl 's only about ten . ’ |
| 12 | For Pete 's sake — it 's only about an hour 's drive . ’ |
| 13 | It 's very short , it 's only about fifteen hundred words , and that I think explains it even more clearly . |
| 14 | Again it 's only about four foot high and about four foot wide and a beautiful flower , a beautiful old fashioned type flower and a new , new variety of er of shrub rose and of course again it 's repeat flowering so they go on right through the season and both of them their fragrance is beautiful . |
| 15 | So overall it 's only about five hectares . |
| 16 | He 's only about , about three , so |
| 17 | ‘ There 's only about twenty yards to go , ’ he told him . |
| 18 | . I mean Autoroute 's only about three files . |
| 19 | She says they 've got a student teacher , she 's only about twenty three . |
| 20 | There 's only about six left on . |
| 21 | So erm but that 's only about three times a year at the most . |
| 22 | Cos it 's , and it 's only about two and half . |
| 23 | It 's , and , and if you actually look on the actual area we 're talking about , there 's only one , two , three , four , there 's only about half a dozen tables . |
| 24 | Clare he 's only about five |
| 25 | That 's only about sixty |
| 26 | that means nothing at the beginning because there 's only about ten boys and she 'll be in charge of them all . |
| 27 | It 's only about three ai n't it ? |
| 28 | your maximum 's only about a hundred and ten to a hundred and twenty a week . |
| 29 | He 's only about five foot ! |
| 30 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |