Example sentences of "[be] only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 2 | There are only about 550 Grade I listed properties in Norfolk , more than 400 of which are churches . |
| 3 | There are only about six mechanisms you actually need to know . |
| 4 | they would n't shore that up because there are only about eight houses up there , so it does n't pay them |
| 5 | By 15 September there are only about 10 000 . |
| 6 | Theirs was once a common line of business , but now there are only about two dozen professional burners left in the country . |
| 7 | It is serious , and children are most at risk , but there are only about two cases per million people each year . |
| 8 | ferns are only about two feet high . |
| 9 | There are only about two thousand Red Pandas left in their natural habitat , the foot hills of the Himalayas . |
| 10 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 11 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 12 | But the programme 's producer , Peter Kinkead , says it is more than a gimmick — despite the fact that there are only about 5500 Prestel sets in TVs 's catchment area . |
| 13 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 14 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |
| 15 | These toads are only about 2 centimetres long . |
| 16 | There are only about 400 homes in Milcombe . |
| 17 | Even now there are only about ten private herds of pedigree Kerries in Ireland . |
| 18 | They do n't need to be reconditioned they 're only about two or three year old are n't they , you know , |
| 19 | ’ You 're only about six kilometres from the sanctum , and you have your personal mini-ceptor to guide you . |
| 20 | And you I mean you 're gon na get you 're only about four foot high you see ? |
| 21 | They 're only about twenty years old , ai n't they , they sixties |
| 22 | And a good example is Carl Perkins : we did n't know it until years later , but Carl and I were born and raised within fourteen miles of each other , and I 'm only about three , four months older than he is . |
| 23 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 24 | It is quite easy to find , close to the Beta-Gamma pair ; it is not particularly rich or condensed , but it may be only about 8200 light-years away , in which case it is the closest of all the globulars . |
| 25 | People living in the village of Middleton , between Hutton Rudby and Seamer , were concerned that their homes would be only about 230 metres from the new lines . |
| 26 | Activity in 1994 may be only about half the peak level of 1990 . ’ |
| 27 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 28 | I once ran into a 10-wheel timber-hauling lorry which , being only about 3 miles long , had momentarily escaped my notice . |
| 29 | They were only about nine to fifteen inch tall do you see . |
| 30 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |