Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no longer three hundred thousand pounds , the Chief Fire Officer and the Deputy Chief Fire Officer along with the er , the finance wizard David , have worked very very hard on er producing revised figures , scrimping and scraping equipment from other stations and the the actual figure is about a hundred and sixty four thousand pounds now . |
| 2 | This site is about a quarter of mile along the modern Hinton Road . |
| 3 | Erm , the consequence of that is that at conception the sex ratio in the white U S population is about a hundred and twenty males to about a hundred females . |
| 4 | Its plush interior ( full leather trim is about a £1000 option ) is roomy enough for five to sit in comfort . |
| 5 | A newborn baby 's head is about a quarter of the baby 's total height , and the length of the legs are little more . |
| 6 | A newborn baby 's head is about a quarter of the baby 's total height , and the length of the legs are little more . |
| 7 | A newborn baby 's head is about a quarter of the baby 's total height , and the length of the legs are little more . |
| 8 | A newborn baby 's head is about a quarter of the baby 's total height , and the length of the legs are little more . |
| 9 | Cos the windowsill is about an eighth of an inch out , well in one place |
| 10 | A human neurone is about a million times slower than a switch in a digital computer . |
| 11 | The novel is about a third too long , and the second half could decently have been pruned back . |
| 12 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 13 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 14 | Armada is about a fifth of the size of the company 's biggest asset , the Morecambe field , which has a potential production capacity of 1.8 billion cubic feet a day . |
| 15 | My last memory is about a week before it happened . |
| 16 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 17 | ‘ The school is about a quarter of a mile from the Rectory . |