Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | The utterances used were about six words long . |
| 10 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
| 11 | I think it 'd been about nineteen sixty maybe but I 'm not sure . |
| 12 | Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty . |
| 13 | and then he 's , he 's fucking started marching us around the parade square and and we ca n't see a fucking thing inside there , and he said er come out a minute , so I 've blinking gone out and I 've noticed were about fifty yards from the beach |
| 14 | Second , they can be qualified by relative clauses : ( 26 ) the rudest , which was very rude indeed , is best forgotten now the longest that I have ever seen was about two metres and a half ( 27 ) the fragrant , which comes from Japan , is a splendid choice the triangular which you wanted has been sold |
| 15 | but then later on in the day he rung back and said he had found some bilingual signs but all he 's got were about four foot square er with census point ahead . |
| 16 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 17 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 18 | Although I worked all that day , by the evening I realised that all I 'd produced was about fifteen pages of a rather bad Agatha Christie spoof . |
| 19 | The numbers employed are about 6,800 , ranging from 2,500 at Dartford , which is the Group 's major production site , 1,500 at the Wellcome Research Laboratories , Beckenham , to about 130 at Pirbright , Surrey , where further research programmes are carried out . |
| 20 | If I say that er the the reduction the industry is facing is about fifty percent . |
| 21 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 22 | it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after |
| 23 | The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent . |
| 24 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | it must have been about four or five o'clock in morning , and now we never hear any traffic . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Peckham would have been about fourteen . |
| 30 | That must have been about eight o'clock or a little earlier . |