Example sentences of "have be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 2 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 3 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 4 | And the whole thing was wrecked the whole the the erm the floors in each er flat was one big circle of stone er about er it would 've been about twelve |
| 5 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 6 | With the exception of the freak year 1981 the ratio since has been about two to one . |
| 7 | Between January and September this year the average monthly total of those seeking political refugee status in this country has been about 3,800 . |
| 8 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 9 | I think it 'd been about nineteen sixty maybe but I 'm not sure . |
| 10 | Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty . |
| 11 | The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent . |
| 12 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 13 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 14 | it must have been about four or five o'clock in morning , and now we never hear any traffic . |
| 15 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 16 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 17 | ‘ Peckham would have been about fourteen . |
| 18 | That must have been about eight o'clock or a little earlier . |
| 19 | Amir and Mansur must have been about eight and ten years old . |
| 20 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 21 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 22 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 23 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 24 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 25 | It must have been about two yards deep and three yards across . |
| 26 | There must have been about twelve of us . |
| 27 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 28 | I must have been about twelve , I suppose . |
| 29 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 30 | ERICK : ‘ I must have been about 18 and he was a DJ in a local nightclub . |