Example sentences of "[conj] it be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Plymouth Limestone is also of Eifelian-Frasnian age , and in the south Devon area , where it is about 200 metres thick , a major stromatoporoid reef has been documented . |
| 2 | Yet this you would expect ; it is one of the hallmarks of the dominant culture , after all , that it is about thirty to fifty years behind what is actually occurring in the world in the present time . |
| 3 | Similarly , the falsificationist must prefer the claim that the velocity of light in a vacuum is 299.8 × 10 6 metres per second to the less-precise claim that it is about 300 × 10 6 metres per second , just because the first is more falsifiable than the second . |
| 4 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 5 | There were no steps outside the door , so it was about four metres above the ground . |
| 6 | And it 's about two millimetres thick , and erm , |
| 7 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 8 | And then there 's er the the storm doors which are pulled in er during stormy weather and the the doors are oh about six inches th each plank and it 's about six inches thick . |
| 9 | And it 's about four hundred and about four hundred and twenty , four hundred and thirty pound to the bank . |
| 10 | And it 's about safe drug use , you know what I |
| 11 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 12 | The Vienna Touring is framed prettily by lush gardens and it is about 100 yards from the beach , where changing cabins are provided and shady sun umbrellas are available at an extra charge payable locally . |
| 13 | The weight of the electronic version is 250 g and it is about 185 mm long . |
| 14 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 15 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 16 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 17 | And it was about three hours later and I said to her |
| 18 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 19 | And it was about ten inches in diameter . |
| 20 | See we er we tried to get and it was about ten to twelve so I thought , I thought Carole was n't coming till the next bus so I 'd go down and pick her up . |
| 21 | And it was about ten , sixteen that was doing it |
| 22 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 23 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 24 | It was reduced because it was a discontinued pattern and James used it until it was about four months old . |
| 25 | And if it 's about four it 's up here the normal four . |
| 26 | Yeah cos it 's about six hours different . |
| 27 | From the orbit of Pioneer Venus Orbiter a value of J 2 ( section 3.2.1 ) has been obtained , but it is about 200 times smaller than J 2 of the Earth , and consequently is known with poor accuracy , to about 40% . |
| 28 | But it is about ten years ago that I really got to work . |
| 29 | But it 's about two or three . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but it 's about half what Debbie gets and it 's paid not by my father but by his firm of ship 's engineers of which he 's a director . |