Example sentences of "about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Too fast and you lose your balance going round the bend.Around 12 miles an hour is about right , controlled by relaxed knees . |
| 62 | A day 's about right , you ask any woman . |
| 63 | These are ideal for our purpose and by late summer should be just about right . |
| 64 | The budget was about right , except for the extras we added later , and we got it finished in the summer . |
| 65 | At minimum heat and in a heavy well-closed pot stood on the floor of the oven rather than on a shelf , the timing would be however just about right . |
| 66 | I think the proportion of students following joint honours physical science courses ( physics/ maths , chemistry/physics , etc. ) is about right , but there is room for more students on combined biological/physical science degrees . |
| 67 | ‘ That 's about right , ’ Connors butted in . |
| 68 | Do you think that is about right ? |
| 69 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 70 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 71 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 72 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 73 | We believe that the level is about right , although in a sense it always has to be arbitrary . |
| 74 | In the end I suppose a tie is just about right . |
| 75 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 76 | ‘ The circumference is about right , but apparently the object itself is too long . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | Others suggest that the county council er is about right . |
| 79 | Er on density we have ourselves done some er survey work to show that a density of about forty three persons per hectare is about right . |
| 80 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 81 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 82 | Charlton Curry , the second placed Liberal , said that Conservatism had ‘ departed once and for all ’ from Co Durham and ( with a nod to Mr Fallon and one or two of his predecessors ) was just about right . |
| 83 | We 're about right I think are n't we ? |
| 84 | Yes that 's about right . |
| 85 | think that 's about right ? |
| 86 | And this one 's , as I say it 's twenty nine something so I mean it 's it 's about right is n't it ? |
| 87 | put a nail in put something like that that 's about right no , actually it 's not . |
| 88 | yeah I think that 's about right , do n't you ? |
| 89 | Which is about right I suppose , yeah . |
| 90 | Cheap repairing a fuse they should be about right should n't it ? |