Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adv] [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 2 | But having regard to the document Policies for Housing and Industrial Land in the Greater York Area , on which the County Council has based their proposed provision , and to which the panel referred , he considers that the outer boundary of the Greater York area , should be about five and seven miles from the City Centre , the precise boundary being a consideration for local planning . |
| 3 | Two and a half that 's about that should be about seven or eight thousand wo n't it ? |
| 4 | To qualify , entrants must be over 18 and able to prove their identity if necessary . |
| 5 | To enter you must be over 18 and answer this simple question : What type of video games console is a Mega Drive . |
| 6 | There are plenty of cheap buses to take , but journeys can be long , so hiring a car is a sound investment , although to do this you must be over 23 and have a full driving licence . |
| 7 | He must be about five and a half you know . |
| 8 | Rocket must be about nine or ten , oh . |
| 9 | Must be about three or four years since I 've been in there . |
| 10 | Might be only two or three Jake , do you want some fruit or anything now ? |
| 11 | It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town , though in actuality it might be only five or six . |
| 12 | Now then , after they cut the in the farm , all the rakings erm there might be about four or five loads there do you see . |
| 13 | But they light the lanterns henhouse might be about four or five o'clock and you maybe leave it in the henhouse maybe till nine or ten at night . |
| 14 | Er er er you know if there was a bad storm somebody would oh you better stay here today too again and he might be there three or four days . |
| 15 | You know there 'll be about fifteen or twenty slides |
| 16 | And of course the door was shut then , and there 'd be just seven or eight of us left on the dance floor . |
| 17 | Each man then , there was about , there 'd be about four or five men there , all had a number of girls working for them , and er they had to pay the wages out of what they earned . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you 'd be about thirty or more , ’ he said lamely . |
| 19 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 20 | There 'd be about two or three hundred . |
| 21 | But er as a rule there 'd be about sixteen or there about . |
| 22 | And there 'd be about ten or P ten or twelve people fucking watching Jerry walk up walk round that corner . |
| 23 | There may be just one or two of us on the list who are still dreaming of Bremner , Giles & E Gray as a midfield trio . |
| 24 | The proportion of crystalline material in natural cellulose varies a good deal but may be about thirty or forty per cent of the whole . |
| 25 | The Banks indicated to the Labour Court , at that stage , that the numbers required for this task would be approximately 700 but despite the fact that full Extended Opening Hours are now in place , the figure actually employed by the Banks falls very far short of that number . |
| 26 | Thus the net present values of the EVs at the events consequent upon decision 2b would be either zero or £16·2k . |
| 27 | Thus the net present values of the EVs at the events consequent upon decision 2b would be either zero or £16.2k . |
| 28 | I thought it would be just two or three people . |
| 29 | By 1975 it was estimated that seven per cent of the population would be under fifteen and thirty per cent would be over sixty , compared with twenty-five per cent and twelve per cent respectively in 1938 , ( Charles , 1935 ) . |
| 30 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |