Example sentences of "[is] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reason appearing to be that menarche is weight-triggered and in particular is turned on by er body weight reaching erm a certain proportion I think it 's about eighteen percent of weight erm erm represented by body fat triggers , triggers menarche . |
| 32 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |
| 33 | The line 's about seventy feet long and the lead plumb has to be this size — over a pound . |
| 34 | I think there 's about seventy or women in it , but there used to be must have been about , maybe about eighty or ninety women |
| 35 | Well I ca n't understand anyone want to pull trees down I mean I 've got a tree in the in my garden it 's about seventy feet high . |
| 36 | the the reasoning being that I 've gone into the aspects of erm income support and that and basically i it 's about seventy pound a week to live on . |
| 37 | even though it 's about seventy degrees all time it still felt cold |
| 38 | It 's not been updated , it 's about 1983 , it 's quite outdated . |
| 39 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |
| 40 | Well it 's about fifty pence a cubic metre if you have a er a metered water supply in Severn Trent , which is about point O five pence a litre . |
| 41 | Stefan , sucking his miracle tablets at the back of the stalls , muttered to the Direktor , ‘ He 's about fifty years out of date . |
| 42 | Oh it 's it 's about fifty percent . |
| 43 | It 's about fifty six pound a week is n't it ? |
| 44 | But that 's about fifty is n't it ? |
| 45 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 46 | You 'd have about , I think it 's about fifty five thousand . |
| 47 | Very small it 's about fifty . |
| 48 | You 're joking , there 's about fifty countries in Africa are n't there ! |
| 49 | I think it 's about fifty odd quid to get a remote control set a remote control handset . |
| 50 | Oh I had to put that postal order in there , there 's about fifty quid in there |
| 51 | It 's about fifty pound now there somewhere , this is unfair of this Tory government , who by the way does n't agree with women in the front benches . |
| 52 | and he , I 've got all these marks yeah and he goes oh well that 's roughly about seventy percent oh that 's about sixty that 's about fifty and he goes yes well there 's , there 's nothing to worry about , there 's no great alarm bells ringing yet . |
| 53 | He 's older than me oh he 's a lot older , he 's about fifty Johnny |
| 54 | That 's like it 's about fifty beats |
| 55 | she 's about late seventies , is n't she ? |
| 56 | That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’ |
| 57 | That 's about six times the present number . |
| 58 | In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning . |
| 59 | When the second 's about six metres up I realise there 's another line just to the right . |
| 60 | There 's about six or seven mothers with children in this corridor I see every day . |