Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kewal Patel was about thirty-five . |
| 2 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 3 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 4 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 5 | Ana de Santis was about nineteen . |
| 6 | Like all filmstars Lorne was about two foot nine ( something to do with the condensed , the concentrated presence ) , but the old prong was in good nick , you had to admit , with that tan-and-silver sheen of the all-American robot-kings . |
| 7 | Esther Clark was about eighteen years older than her new husband , but may not have revealed her actual age to him . |
| 8 | Lewis Luther was about nineteen in age years but a lot older in street-time . |
| 9 | The nearest sandy beach is only about a ten minute walk from the Venus and the West End of San Antonio is about 15 minutes away . |
| 10 | Separated from its neighbours and set in its own small garden , shared only by the owner who occupies another villa , Villa Sylvia is about 20 minutes walk from the sea and the resort 's centre . |
| 11 | Oh , and bu by the way Margot was about half an hour late for work that morning and that was the story that we got . |
| 12 | The population of Northern Ireland is about 1.5 million which is less than the larger units of local government in England or the Strathclyde region in Scotland . |