Example sentences of "[pron] is about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that no Court of Attachment or Swanimote had been held in Salcey Forest since he became Ranger , ‘ and I doubt whether such Courts have been held ever since the Rangership has been in my Family , which is about 120 years ’ . |
| 2 | Our guests will stay either in the original hotel or the modern gastehaus which is about 100 yards away . |
| 3 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 4 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 5 | The chemical , which is about 150 times as toxic as cyanide , has turned up in the soil and in waters that flow into the Mississippi River at levels up to several hundred times those thought to be safe . |
| 6 | Unusually , however , the latest El Nino developed during May , rather than the usual season which is about five months later ( see box ) . |
| 7 | They assembled , on 18 May 1689 , in Glen Roy [ or Glenroy ] in Inverness-shire , near the hamlet of Roybridge [ or Roy Bridge ] , which is about ten miles [ 16 km ] north-east of the site of the future Fort William . |
| 8 | It would have been too expensive in electricity to pipe hot water from the house , which is about 40ft away , although the pipe run could have followed the cold water supply , which is taken , underground , from the house . |
| 9 | It 's made from a length of airline which is glued with silicone sealer to a length of thin , but strong dowelling rod , which is about 6″ longer than the height of the tank . |
| 10 | This is similar to the limit placed on the companion to PSR B1855+09 which is about 5 times more distant . |
| 11 | When you do want to use the floppy drive it connects to the printer port via a cable which is about 10 inches long . |
| 12 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 13 | There are various roads that you can take to get from Bayonne to Biarritz , which is about five miles south-west of Bayonne . |
| 14 | How , for example , does my left cerebral hemisphere , which occupies the left half of my skull , talk to the right cerebral hemisphere , which is about three inches away ? |
| 15 | Isolated PHB powder , which is about 70% crystalline , has no C-NMR spectrum at these temperatures . |
| 16 | When it does happen , which is about fifteen , twenty percent there is a successful well , pregnancy baby at the end of it . |
| 17 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 18 | We 've got to cross the river to get to the nearest shop which is about two miles away ; and in the winter when the weather is bad we 're more or less cut off . |
| 19 | Even when we all work , it is difficult to earn even the minimum wage for one , which is about nine pounds a month . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that an impact which would have excavated a basin the size of , for example , Mare Imbrium ( Figure 6.1 ( a ) ) which is about 800 km diameter , would initially have produced a bowl about 150 km deep . |
| 21 | There 's a slide , for instance , which is about 12ft high — it scares me watching the kids at the top , they just do n't look safe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The stars then exploded as supernovas , and their debris went to form other stars and planets , among them those of our solar system , which is about five thousand million years old . |
| 24 | There is a large tower at one end of the church which is about twenty five metres high . |
| 25 | It all hinges on B A's share of slots at Heathrow which is about forty percent . |
| 26 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 27 | The cost and the estimated monetary value of the worktime lost came out to $1,231 , which is about 30 times the legal monthly minimum wage . |
| 28 | Was the income generation unit responsible for the policy adopted by New Cross hospital in Wolverhampton and the Mayday hospital in Croydon , whereby bedridden patients must hire a television for a minimum of three days at a cost of £1.95 a day — which is about twice the rate charged by high street television rental companies ? |
| 29 | Extrapolating these results to human diets , the lowest calcium concentration used in the present study ( 25 µmol/g ) reflects a daily intake of calcium of about 12.5 mmol ( 500 mg ) which is about 60% of the recommended dietary allowance for calcium . |
| 30 | In this case , this stage had a mean number of er calves per year , about two , whereas this hind had a number just under one , which is about right . |