Example sentences of "is only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rough is only about six inches high , but in 1961 it was three or four feet of thick , willowy scrub . |
| 2 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got a Fender USA Strat which is only about four years old , but it 's a nice guitar . |
| 4 | This comes as something of a surprise , because the human species is only about four million years old and the Brahims substantially younger ! |
| 5 | But definitely they should er explore this County and not erm wanted to come into I think it was into the Estuary to drill for gold and minerals an all that , and the planning of the National Park said , No , and the blinking hole is only about four inches wide . |
| 6 | For the proposed West Wales seat I understand the electorate is only about four hundred thousand . |
| 7 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 8 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
| 9 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 10 | The beach is only about five minutes away . |
| 11 | But Bill believed , and still believes , that the ‘ shelf life ’ of an engineer is only about five years . |
| 12 | The city is only about two miles long by one mile wide , so you can walk from end to end in less than two hours . |
| 13 | Where average family size is only about two children , it is perfectly possible for women to delay marriage quite late — until their mid-30s — and still complete a family at or even above the average size . |
| 14 | As it is only about two or three feet wide , this is a little demanding on the imagination . |
| 15 | Some of the rooms are situated in the Minoa Sun annexe which is only about 100 metres away from the main building . |
| 16 | Las Palmeras , reserved exclusively for the Club , has its own attractive swimming pool and sunterrace , providing a perfect sun-trap and the sandy beach is only about 200 metres away . |
| 17 | Without moving our heads , we can see about 208 degrees around us , while a cat 's field of view is only about 187 degrees . |
| 18 | Castlebar is only about twenty miles from here and Mr Durkin 's automobile can do twenty-five miles an hour . ’ |
| 19 | The separation between the two components is only about 35000000 kilometres , so that no telescope can show them separately , and each must be egg-shaped . |
| 20 | Vesuvius , which is only about ten kilometres from the centre of Naples and in one of the most densely populated areas of Italy , has an irregular cycle of eruptions with twenty-five to thirty years of quiet being followed by a major outburst , when a great plume of dust and ash from the volcano rises over the city , reaching many kilometres into the air . |
| 21 | This is much longer than the age of the universe , which is only about ten or twenty thousand million years ( 1 or 2 with ten zeros after it ) . |
| 22 | Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half . |
| 23 | The farm is only about half a mile from his home in Stroud . |
| 24 | Although Dragon is only about half the size of Drayton Asia , its superior investment performance has got the bid off to a good start . |
| 25 | which extends along the entire eastern coast of Queensland , and up to 40 m deep , is only about 9000 years old . |
| 26 | Without a harbour , the islands would probably not be inhabited at all , as the land area is only about 250 hectares . |
| 27 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 28 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 29 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |
| 30 | We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house . |