Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [ex0] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this home there are about 44 residents , but they live in small self-contained units of 12 with their own key workers who stay with that one unit . |
| 2 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 3 | Another example , but on a larger scale , is at Castor and Water Newton in the Nene Valley , where to the north of the walled town there are about two square miles full of buildings and sites associated with the extensive pottery industry with a centre of some kind in Castor village ( fig. 7.3 ) . |
| 4 | According to official statistics there were about 700,000 cattle in Sinhala Sri Lanka in 1870 . |
| 5 | L. On 31 August there are about 500 000 tourists in the region . |
| 6 | About two million acres of waste have been enclosed by act since 1700 , so that we may reasonably assume that at the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about seven million acres of ‘ waste ’ all told rather than the ten million estimated by Gregory King . |
| 7 | At any moment there are about six fangs in reserve on each side of the mouth , at various stages of development . |