Example sentences of "[prep] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds |
| 2 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 3 | In several instances I have observed women successfully give an impression of being about ten years younger than they really are , until a major event happens in their lives , a death in the family perhaps , or a divorce . |
| 4 | His computer was totally compatible with the machines of the brand leader IBM , but with the added advantage of being about half the price and running at a much faster speed . |
| 5 | I 'll go in being about fifty , with grizzled hair and a rather lined face . ’ |
| 6 | Whirlwind , though it continued the story of the Noble House company , was a departure for Clavell in being about modern politics in Iran . |
| 7 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 8 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 9 | The workforce , 4,300 before the revolution , is down to just over 3,000 ( including 1,000 employees on short-time ) ; the final figure is likely to be about 2,000 . |
| 10 | During model runs simulating the onset and the progress of the spring bloom the ‘ critical depth ’ was calculated to be about 55 m . |
| 11 | She seemed to be about seventeen or eighteen years old . |
| 12 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 13 | The slit mechanism between the camera and the artwork , instead of being a few inches long , had to be about six feet ( 1.8m ) long . |
| 14 | The world 's population , currently estimated to be about 5,300 million , was expected to increase by another 1,000 million by the year 2000 . |
| 15 | Evelyn reckoned him to be about twenty-six if you allowed for the drink . |
| 16 | The group Dr Kaiser works with finds W to be about 0.8 ; Dr Dekel and his colleagues find much the same . |
| 17 | Commonly , a is chosen to be about 0.8 in which case , for a 5-period exponentially weighted moving average , we would have |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 20 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 21 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 22 | She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent , and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck . |
| 23 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 24 | Our Earth is believed to be about 4.5 billion ( 4500 million ) years old , and life is believed to have begun on it around 3.5 billion years ago . |
| 25 | I guessed her to be about twenty-two or three . |
| 26 | In a regional study including about 10% of the Danish population we found the population relative risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease among first degree relatives of patients with either disease to be about 10 , which strongly suggests that these disorders have a genetic cause . |
| 27 | The evidence for the dark matter comes from the temperature of the gas , which is found to be about 10 7 K. This is because the temperature is determined by the strength of the gravitational field , and the visible material alone ( the combination of the gas and the galaxies ) does not provide enough gravity to explain such a high value . |
| 28 | In the United States about 1% of infants born to colonised mothers develop group B streptococcal infection ; in northern Europe , including Britain , the incidence seems to be about 10 times lower . |
| 29 | The exact cost , and hence the viability , of the energy source remains to be determined , though it is projected to be about 10 pence a unit , five times the existing price of coal but only twice the cost of nuclear power . |
| 30 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |