Example sentences of "be about [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 2 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 3 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 4 | Living costs are about the same as Britain . |
| 5 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 6 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 7 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 8 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 9 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 10 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 11 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 12 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 13 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 14 | ‘ We did try swapping while our youngest children were tiny — they 're about the same age — but found that the erratic routines caused havoc . |
| 15 | Still you 're about the same height , and they 're obviously such good clothes . ’ |
| 16 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 17 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 18 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 19 | We 're about the same size . |
| 20 | They 're about the same . |
| 21 | Under many circumstances , the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same . |
| 22 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 23 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 24 | His kids must be about the same age . ’ |
| 25 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 26 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 27 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 28 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 29 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 30 | Right and again ten years , monthly premium , and that will be about the same , about ten pounds a month , something like that ? |