Example sentences of "be [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 2 | I remember we I had this sort of enamel brown enamel jug , ooh it was mm must have been somewhere about four . |
| 3 | And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think . |
| 4 | Most schemes allow you to do this if you are within about 10 years of normal retirement age but your pension may be reduced accordingly . |
| 5 | IBM 's revenues from mainframe processors in calendar 1988 may have been only about $12billion , but sales of peripherals ( $11billion ) , software ( $8billion ) and maintenance ( $7billion ) should be added to this . |
| 6 | GEC 's HC depreciation has been only about 40% of reported HC profit after tax : and with a shorter average plant life , the CPP amount is only 50% higher . |
| 7 | In the end , curriculum breadth and balance are less about time allocation than the diversity and challenge of what the child encounters . |
| 8 | There are only about 550 Grade I listed properties in Norfolk , more than 400 of which are churches . |
| 9 | Theirs was once a common line of business , but now there are only about two dozen professional burners left in the country . |
| 10 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |
| 11 | Even now there are only about ten private herds of pedigree Kerries in Ireland . |
| 12 | By 15 September there are only about 10 000 . |
| 13 | But the programme 's producer , Peter Kinkead , says it is more than a gimmick — despite the fact that there are only about 5500 Prestel sets in TVs 's catchment area . |
| 14 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 15 | It is serious , and children are most at risk , but there are only about two cases per million people each year . |
| 16 | These toads are only about 2 centimetres long . |
| 17 | There are only about six mechanisms you actually need to know . |
| 18 | ferns are only about two feet high . |
| 19 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 20 | I accept that at present diesel prices are only about p a litre below unleaded prices . |
| 21 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 22 | There are only about 400 homes in Milcombe . |
| 23 | There are only about two thousand Red Pandas left in their natural habitat , the foot hills of the Himalayas . |
| 24 | There are only about a hundred made |
| 25 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 26 | they would n't shore that up because there are only about eight houses up there , so it does n't pay them |
| 27 | It 's more than a little apt for its group finance director , since he could have been just about anything he wanted in life , and what 's more , he confesses , he was almost a politician . |
| 28 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 29 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 30 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |