Example sentences of "said about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know how , if you 've got a lot of toadstools and fungus in your in your garden , you have to dig down do n't you , it said about six inches down . |
| 2 | Well , the Old Fire Station is about three hundred seats , the Apollo seats one thousand two hundred , and we seat as I said about six hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | Mr Fallon said about 3,000 of 26,000 people he had canvassed were still unsure how they would vote tomorrow . |
| 4 | Cos I come back to what I said about five minutes ago ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems is apparently considering taking back every nasty thing it ever said about X terminals and entering the business . |
| 7 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
| 8 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 9 | Well it 'll be such a big room , she said it 'll be , oh I do n't know what she said about sixteen by twelve or summat like that |
| 10 | Col Peck said about 2,000 Belgian and US troops in Kismayu had intervened during the militia battles , mainly to safeguard lives of aid workers and the port and airport . |
| 11 | Police said about 10 men armed with AK-47 rifles carried out the ‘ well-planned ’ massacre in Wadeville . |
| 12 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 13 | Terry Thomas , managing director , said about half a dozen accounts had had to be ‘ squeezed out ’ where the customers were engaged in activities such as factory farming and hunting . |
| 14 | Peter Reid , the Kildalton factor , said about 400 people emigrated from Islay in 1863 . |
| 15 | Peter Reid , the Kildalton factor , said about 400 people emigrated from Islay in 1863 . |
| 16 | An armed forces spokesman , Mr Oscar Florendo , said about 1,800 rebel officers and men had surrendered since the six-day coup attempt was snuffed out in Manila last Thursday . |
| 17 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 18 | Coun leader Mike Carr said about 40 jobs would have to go and warned that the Government 's continued stern attitude could lead to further cuts in services in years to come . |
| 19 | Good , , Mark asked me how old he was , and I said about twenty nine . |
| 20 | I did n't know you said about twenty past . |
| 21 | A Clwyd health authority spokesman said about 30 GP practices were being asked to contact people who had received surgery at the hospital over the past ten months . |
| 22 | Journalists said about 50 soldiers of the HVO gathered at a strategic road junction on the convoy 's route north and threatened to blow it up . |
| 23 | And Mr Baker said about 50 per cent of his time was spent going out to companies . |
| 24 | A chicken once put its foot through a newly-sheeted tunnel , but the less said about that the better . |