Example sentences of "be [verb] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 2 | yes , its been rewound about five times to tape over Rupert 's swearing , you just have to leave it now |
| 3 | in a corner house and she 's been burgled about five times , in |
| 4 | Mine would be doing about five grand at that . |
| 5 | Yeah , but you put , you must be putting about five hours effort of a day into prospecting accounts . |
| 6 | The girl , thought to be aged about five , had stopped breathing when she was pulled from the water on the South Bank near the old GLC build-ing steps . |
| 7 | Pickers are turning up all the time — this lady expects to be paid about five pounds for her blossoms . |
| 8 | Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR 's , ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return , with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket . |
| 9 | We were finished about five minutes before |
| 10 | and er just at the very end all you could see was her and your man , the hologram and he 'd just been killed about five minutes earlier . |
| 11 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 12 | This procedure is repeated about five times . |
| 13 | The whole must have been rewritten about five times . |
| 14 | The technique was developed about five years ago by Dr Peter Hudson , Game Conservancy upland scientist . |
| 15 | The book was written about five years after Moggach left Bristol . |
| 16 | The distraught woman was dumped about five miles away from the reservoir , at Whitburn , west Lothian , and she flagged down a police patrol car from the Lothian and Borders force . |
| 17 | She made her way back to her seat , noticing that the man with the leather jacket was seated about five rows behind her . |
| 18 | Oh well he he he had to take on a oh he could easily afford it because he was paid about five shillings in the year . |