Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] about " in BNC.

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1 The price tag is expected to be about £150m .
2 The six year mortality from CHD in a population like this , getting only their usual physician 's care , was expected to be about 29 per 1000 .
3 Its price is expected to be about £12,000 — which makes the Reliant a better bargain that even Del Boy could afford .
4 He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down .
5 Annual expenditure growth is expected to be about 15% and 19% respectively .
6 Bitwise Designs Inc , New York signed a letter of intent to acquire Electrograph Systems Inc for 333,333 shares of Bitwise common : the combined annual revenues of the two are expected to be about $12m .
7 The player price had increased and was expected to be about £350 at launch .
8 The combined payments for March 1993 and June 1993 are expected to be about £9m , a more than 50% increase over the payment in March 1992 .
9 Admission was expected to be about £4.00 full rate , and there would as usual be concessionary rates .
10 We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent .
11 Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent .
12 The figure for 1992 is expected to be about 950 .
13 The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn .
14 Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English .
15 Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer .
16 The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year .
17 Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred .
18 There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period .
19 In the Sporting Magazine for March 1794 , there appears a ‘ picturesque view of Palfrey 's Infirmary ’ said to be about a quarter of a mile west of Coventry .
20 The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month .
21 The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven .
22 The youth who slashed John is said to be about 6ft tall , of medium build with short hair and a ‘ Borstal spot ’ tattoo on his right cheek .
23 The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago .
24 The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard .
25 Nobody has counted science teachers for many years but there are thought to be about 30 000 , so 6000 more could be needed .
26 His new salary is thought to be about £220,000 ( $137,000 ) a year .
27 The promised 80Mhz HyperSparc is thought to be about four months behind the 66.7MHz part — Richards says there is a single completed 80MHz module in existence right now .
28 The distance is thought to be about 8000 light-years , and each cluster is 70 light-years in diameter .
29 Probably against the advice of his commanders Henry decided to lead what remained of his army , decimated by illness contracted at the siege , to Calais , thought to be about a week 's march away .
30 These rocks , now thought to be about 650 million years old , were believed to be completely unfossiliferous .
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