Example sentences of "and be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The females weigh around half as much and are about 8 in ( 20 cm ) shorter . ) |
| 2 | They are made of copper alloy and are about 3 to 4 cms in length . |
| 3 | The radial shields extend over half the radius of the disk and are about 3 times as long as broad . |
| 4 | A Royal Navy spokesman said : ‘ They appear to have gone off course and were about five miles from shore . ’ |
| 5 | Seekie claimed that ULIMO forces controlled Grand Cape Mount County in the west and were about 50 km from Monrovia . |
| 6 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |
| 7 | The furnace pond still survives and is about 200 yards east of Oxenhall Church , near the remains of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal . |
| 8 | Pavlova , near Gorky , lies beside the river Orka , and is about 200 miles south east of Kostrama , County Durham 's twin town . |
| 9 | Korea extends for approximately 600 miles ( 965 km ) from the north-east to the south-west and is about 150 miles ( 240 km ) wide , although narrowing in the northern part of the peninsula to less than 100 miles ( 160 km ) . |
| 10 | This castle , built c. 1130 , is of stone and is about 125 feet high and based on a plan 70 feet square . |
| 11 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 12 | Its circulation never approached the 800,000 target and was about 112,000 when , after little more than six months , the estate agent and local radio entrepreneur , Owen Oyston , who sought to rescue it , closed it down . |
| 13 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 14 | He had a dark face , with angry-looking eyes , and was about thirty-five . |