Example sentences of "[noun pl] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absolute values of these returns are about 25 times ( |
| 2 | Compact hobs are about 550 × 450 mm ( 21 × 17in ) but if you have space , go for a large hob to take awkward-sized pans : you do n't have to limit yourself to a simple , square configuration there 's no reason why you should n't have two or three small hobs in different places . |
| 3 | Cossacks and " White Russians " : Macmillan immediately runs on , in this catalogue of Gen Keightley 's problems : " Moreover , among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians , with their wives and children . |
| 4 | Harold Macmillan 's diary entry describing his meeting at Klagenfurt on 13 May ( only a day after the last group had surrendered ) states that he was informed that " among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians with their wives and children " , and he notes that " to hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 5 | Drawn your hands away from each other until the fingers are about six to eight inches apart . |
| 6 | In other birds sperm can be stored for shorter periods : average values are about six days in quail and doves and about ten days in chickens , ducks and zebra finches . |
| 7 | In the northern temperate zone the values are about 50 per cent higher than these estimates , and in the southern temperate zone about 50 per cent lower . |
| 8 | French health statistics show that deaths from heart disease in French cities are about half of those in some cities in America . |
| 9 | Er the roads are about four kilometres apart and , and a valuation would I think be pretty meaningless because conditions er along those two axes do differ in certain respects . |
| 10 | No , we have er all students of one year studying one subject had er lectures together , and then we have seminars and er that 's why the whole students group of one year is divided in seminar groups and the seminar groups are about thirty people in , in one group and the seminars , when you have seminars there are only three people , and er |
| 11 | But cars are about half as much again as in Britain . |
| 12 | CDs are therefore very similar to negotiable money market deposits , although the yields are about 0.25 per cent below the equivalent period deposit rates because of the added benefit of liquidity . |
| 13 | Ken Smith 4-strings are about two grand , but I do n't have any in stock at the moment . |
| 14 | The riding stables were about half an hour 's drive from the college . |
| 15 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 16 | The Jacobite losses were about 40 dead and 90 wounded . |
| 17 | Nocturnal insects need time to gather enough light to form an image , and so their flicker fusion frequency is quite low , that of nocturnal crickets being about 45 per second . |
| 18 | The f-number of our eyes is about 2.55 , while a standard camera lens has an f-number of 1.8 and special lenses may reach 1.1 . |
| 19 | There are about 6,000 crofts , but ( because of multiple tenancies ) the number of working units is about 5,400 . |
| 20 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 21 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 22 | In 1921 the population of the urban districts was about 195,000 , and of these only 5,000 were Poles . |
| 23 | There is some evidence that there is an age resistance to N. battus which commences when lambs are about three months old . |
| 24 | These untidy wounds are about 50 times more likely to get infected than tidy ones . |
| 25 | The ceilings are about 16 feet high and cleaning the windows is foolhardy without a safety-net . |
| 26 | The lines are about eight point eight inches apart at a distance of one mile . |
| 27 | This chap , Major , when he heard the order , he got his big staff out — our staffs were about three foot long — and he was going along waving his staff about , and laying into people . |
| 28 | The percentage of added records that can not be held in these embedded overflow areas is about 10.26 per cent . |
| 29 | So the global growth rate of our intestinal E. coli is about 10 19 cells per day . |
| 30 | Wrote my other essays is an answer that I For those of you that believe that statistics and research matters is about hard sums , you can endorse that view okay . |