Example sentences of "be about [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The puppies , which are about eight days old , were discovered by a busy road side . |
| 2 | In other birds sperm can be stored for shorter periods : average values are about six days in quail and doves and about ten days in chickens , ducks and zebra finches . |
| 3 | Harvest will be about 10 days behind last year on most farms in Scotland , reckons barometer grower Ian McLaren , of Fintalich , Crieff . |
| 4 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 5 | Far into the future the Earth and the Moon will both be in synchronous rotation about each other , the sidereal orbital and axial periods all being about 55 days . |
| 6 | It 's about two days march apparently to the rest of the tribe and the river we 're looking for . |
| 7 | The prepatent period is about 45 days . |
| 8 | The incubation period of a cuckoo 's egg is about 11 days , while that for host species is slightly longer — 12 days for the reed warbler and dunnock , 13 to 14 days for the meadow pipit , pied wagtail and redstart . |
| 9 | The interval between initial pairing and the laying of the first egg is about nine days . |
| 10 | The normal circulating count varies in man between 150 and 400 × 10 9 /l and mean platelet survival is about 9.9 days . |
| 11 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
| 12 | The prepatent period is about 15 days . |
| 13 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |
| 14 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 15 | Once mixed , the shelf life in an open container is about 3 days , but this can be extended if the container is sealed after mixing , and kept in a cool place . |
| 16 | In humans the record is about seven days , but this is exceptional . |
| 17 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 18 | And the meeting was about ten days ago or something like that . |