Example sentences of "be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 2 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 4 | Its members live in a constant state of irritation that their salaries are about a third of what ‘ yuppiewhite ’ expats make . |
| 5 | There are about a dozen kinds of gibbon , all from South-East Asia . |
| 6 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 7 | Put another way , for every human being alive , there are about a million insects — and together these insects would weigh about twelve times as much as he does . |
| 8 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 9 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 10 | In later correspondence with the Board of Education , stretching over several years , it was pointed out that " in 1899 there were 243 deaf principals and teachers in the USA , while there are about a dozen in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 11 | There are about a dozen deer grazing . " |
| 12 | In a world ranking of premature death before the age of 60 , Northern Ireland and Scotland are near the top and England and Wales are about a third of the way down . |
| 13 | There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell . |
| 14 | Both of these corpora are about a million words in size and are derived from a variety of domains . |
| 15 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |
| 16 | In the Sporting Magazine for March 1794 , there appears a ‘ picturesque view of Palfrey 's Infirmary ’ said to be about a quarter of a mile west of Coventry . |
| 17 | At the proposed Mercedes plant , the labour cost per car will be about a third of what it is back home . |
| 18 | Probably against the advice of his commanders Henry decided to lead what remained of his army , decimated by illness contracted at the siege , to Calais , thought to be about a week 's march away . |
| 19 | About period ten and correct me if I 'm wrong Andrew I was told it would be about a thousand , roughly a thousand pounds per fee earning employee . |
| 20 | The escape velocity from the surface of such a star would be about a thousand kilometers per second . |
| 21 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 22 | So you 'd just be about a hundred and I think a hundred and ten is the lowest commission you get for any deal in our company . |
| 23 | There is a mar if you got a two two for a piece of course work , ok , it would easily get an equivalent two two in an exam would be the eq would be about a third or a pass , yeah ? |
| 24 | If so , you must be about a hundred years out of date . ’ |
| 25 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 26 | There would be about a thousand to do in a day . |
| 27 | If she 's the lady I remember , she must be about a hundred now . ’ |
| 28 | Well I did a proje projection for the erm guy at Nationwide , I said well it 's probably gon na be about a hundred and fifty grand turnover and about twenty five to thirty percent clear , you know |
| 29 | She said , well mine , she said would be further than sixty pound at the end , a hundred and twenty at the end of the quarter , but she said oh this time it 's gon na be about a hundred sixty so it 's crippling me living here ! |
| 30 | That wo n't be just si , it 's gon na be about a year or so 's time ! |