Example sentences of "would [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye it would been about maybe nineteen seventeen or nineteen eighteen . |
| 2 | If the annual quantity of net deployed within all North Pacific fisheries in a 6-month season is taken to be 3–5 million k ( about 2–3 million miles ) , the total possible deaths of marine mammals would be about 100,000–181,500 . |
| 3 | Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay . |
| 4 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 5 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 6 | Professor Lear 's assertion that ‘ it is through love that humans , and the rest of living nature , acquire form ’ seems to me a throwback to a much earlier mode of thinking which , if widely readopted , would be about as intellectually productive as a Romanian state-run steel mill is economically productive . |
| 7 | A NAME like Pauline Gascoyne inevitably conjures an image of a bimbo Gazza in a GTi , to whom a diesel car would be about as socially acceptable as dandruff . |
| 8 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 9 | More optimistically , Hall argued that the zones would be about enterprise , growth and innovation . |
| 10 | To demonstrate the size of such numbers , one is driven to make strange comparisons ; for instance , if we had a cube for each of the 4.325 X 10 19 patterns , they would form a stack about 260 light years long ; and a volume consisting of one cube for each of the 8.858 X 10 22 patterns with marked centres would be about three-quarters the volume of the Moon . |
| 11 | Okay , my mum 'd probably buy me one for my birthday but that would be about it . |
| 12 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |
| 13 | Then he realized that any such news would be about ‘ Ben MacLean ’ and that they would not connect it with him . |
| 14 | If we could somehow persuade our planet to become a black hole , it would be about the size of a marble — but still possessing all the mass of the original Earth . |
| 15 | If he was still alive , he would be about Mr Hobbs 's age . |
| 16 | He thought the guy would be about his own age , certainly not more than mid-thirties . |
| 17 | The initial , halting conversation would be about Masai bravery and the importance of showing no pain . |
| 18 | Without people like him we would n't have a PFK magazine and that would be about as bad as never having heard of fish at all ! |
| 19 | Julia was horrified , thinking that the last thing David 's mother would want to hear just then would be about another woman 's wish to be with her husband . |
| 20 | But , you see , if you 'd forty of those , which would be about the your maximum , you got er forty penny , three farthings . |
| 21 | It would be about Life and Death and Treachery and Betrayal and Love and Death and Imperialism and Colonialism and Capitalism . |
| 22 | It would be about Scotland , ( or India , or an ‘ Erewhon ? ? ? ’ ) and the Working Class and Exploitation and Action , and there would be characters in the work who would represent all of these things , and the working out of the story would itself prove the Subjectivity of Truth . |
| 23 | Baked cream , literally , so piggy type of pudding would be about right . |
| 24 | long poles they were , they would be about that . |
| 25 | Oh that would be about the nineteen thirties . |
| 26 | Would , this would be about the turn of the century ? |
| 27 | And that would be about the m m the m m m nineteen twenties . |
| 28 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 29 | If I had married and had a son , I reasoned to myself , that boy would be about Tom 's age . |
| 30 | Those again would be about a yard wide and a yard deep , then you had a a big er wire with a loop on one end with a sharp point . |