Example sentences of "is about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Including letters addressed to other Ministers and transferred to me , the answer is about 2,000 . |
| 2 | You see , finding your healing , not just curing the disease , is about many things , but one of the most important of those is love . |
| 3 | Th the strange thing is about many of those songs , the shortness of them . |
| 4 | The pensions is about 45 minutes walk from the village centre . |
| 5 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 6 | The prepatent period is about 45 days . |
| 7 | The crater is about 1.2 km across . |
| 8 | Whereas 1 in 4 marriages were preceded by cohabitation in the 1960s , the corresponding proportion in the 1980s is about 7 in 10 . |
| 9 | By car or bus the museum is about 7 miles from Belfast city centre on the A2 Belfast-Bangor Road . |
| 10 | The lowest proportion of any cohort of married women to remain childless by age 50 is about 7 per cent ( see figure 4.10 ) . |
| 11 | ; in Waltham Forest , my borough , it is about 7 per cent . |
| 12 | For Earthlife , however , the fact that seal pup mortality is about 95 per cent indicates that the species needs protection , not culling . |
| 13 | The average literacy rate in India is about 34 per cent . |
| 14 | I am not aware of any deaths of babies with prolonged expiratory apnoea in Gwynedd although over 30 cases a year are seen in wards or outpatient clinics ( the child population of Gwynedd is about 45000 with 2800 births a year ) . |
| 15 | Because of the need to refuel the two power cars , the practical operating range of an HST set is about 1,100 miles after which the unit must visit the depot to replenish its tanks . |
| 16 | The average consumption of fat in the Western world at the present time is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day per person . |
| 17 | In the last chapter I said that the average consumption of fat in the Western world is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day . |
| 18 | That was a strange and beautiful exaggeration ; the lake 's actual depth is about 130 feet . |
| 19 | Could you get you say this is about fifty . |
| 20 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 21 | He is about fifty and still has a full head of jet black slicked-back hair , Elvis-style . |
| 22 | Er obviously the erm better for overseas visitors pound will help tourism in this country , particularly in London erm the Chairman says Madame Tussauds in fact gets about sixty percent visitors over from overseas , Rock Circus at the moment is about fifty percent and it 's still rising , which partially explains why it had a very good year last year . |
| 23 | Forty eight per cent is about fifty per cent , what 's fifty per cent as a fraction ? |
| 24 | If I say that er the the reduction the industry is facing is about fifty percent . |
| 25 | The is about fifty five or over . |
| 26 | So the average speed is about fifty three miles per hour . |
| 27 | No the highest she said is about fifty pee . |
| 28 | And the total budget of Oxford City Council is about fifty million . |
| 29 | Currently , the total number of children who experience divorce is about 160,000 per year in England and Wales . |
| 30 | As a result , the top lots all had predicted CGIs between 900 and 1150 points — the black-and-white breed average is about 500 , and animals over CGI 730 are in the top 1% of the UK population . |