Example sentences of "be about [n mass] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Kingdom exports to Libya have been about £250 million annually . |
| 2 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 3 | The cost of the work to date has been about £150 million . |
| 4 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 5 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 6 | The blades are about 2in long , the small rounded handles designed to be held in palm of hand . |
| 7 | According to Barber White , a firm of property researchers , there are about 11m square feet of vacant property in the City . |
| 8 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |
| 9 | So far as I can see , there are about 16m private motorists ; 10m I would like to insure , and I think we might end up insuring 3m . ’ |
| 10 | Small container-grown or potted trees are about £10 , while rooted and root-balled trees are about £3 more than cut trees . |
| 11 | They are about 0.5mm thick and made mainly of precious metals . |
| 12 | It reckons that the figures are about £487 million short of the sum needed . |
| 13 | This is when the labyrinth is developing and the young babies , which are about 1cm long by this time , are taking their first of air . |
| 14 | In normal G-cells of the antrum there are approximately similar concentrations of amidated gastrins and the C-terminal progastrin fragment ; concentrations of progastrin and of Gly-extended gastrins are about 10% those of the cleaved C-terminal fragment . |
| 15 | I reckon I 'm about £60 million and six years behind Alex Ferguson . ’ |
| 16 | In his annual report , he states that the cost of immunising these children and providing the medicines necessary to treat the dehydration and pneumonia would be about $2.5 billion . |
| 17 | The distance from bottle to anchor should be about 1ft deeper than the depth of water . |
| 18 | In 1981 the BWB chairman , Sir Frank Price said : ‘ The Fraenkel figure for the backlog of maintenance at today 's prices must be about £100 million . |
| 19 | The Select Committee on Agriculture , of which I am a member , is about to launch a major inquiry into Britain 's food trade gap , which is estimated to be about £6 billion . |
| 20 | Admission was expected to be about £4.00 full rate , and there would as usual be concessionary rates . |
| 21 | Cutting should be about 9in long , cut just below a leaf joint at the bottom , and just above a leaf joint at the top . |
| 22 | The additional defence costs of the Gulf conflict , to be spread over several years , are currently estimated to be about £2.5 billion . |
| 23 | The cost of connection for the new service will be about 20% more per minute , but should still cost the user less for the same operation . |
| 24 | The head must be substantial enough not to bend easily and should be about 30cm wide . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the former , the DoI budgeted to spend £24 million in 1982–83 but the true figure will be about £ 14 million , an underspend of 40 per cent . |
| 27 | Total investment would be about £45 billion . |
| 28 | But that would be more than offset by other tax increases as Mr Lamont looks for extra funds to tackle the ballooning PSBR deficit , likely to be about £45 billion next year . |
| 29 | The trench must be about 500mm wide with 100mm added to the depth for any bedding material which the Building Control Officer may insist on . |
| 30 | Total promotional spending in the first half of the year will be about £1 million . |