Example sentences of "that [is] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is about as much progress as has been achieved . |
| 2 | There is also a widespread convention that the working day should be 7–8 hours , that is about a third of the total day . |
| 3 | That is about as much as the East Europeans are likely to get at the moment . |
| 4 | Do you think that is about right ? |
| 5 | However , nearly six million women are ‘ significantly obese ’ ( that is about 20 per cent or more about their ideal weight ) . |
| 6 | Trogus goes on to explain that a little later — that is about 390 B.C. — the Massaliotes emptied their treasure to ransom the Romans from the Gauls . |
| 7 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
| 8 | is good because each side of that is about half an hour |
| 9 | 10 acres of land ( that 's about 5 football pitches ) will support |
| 10 | That 's about eighty in dog years . ’ |
| 11 | That 's about £5,000 cheaper than most similar-sized tractors , points out Zelor . |
| 12 | That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’ |
| 13 | That 's about nine hundred too many , in my opinion . ’ |
| 14 | Apple Computer , the Cinderella company that has risen from the backyard to a worldwide name in six years , is going to give a computer to every public and private school in the state — that 's about 10 000 computers with a retail value of almost $20 million . |
| 15 | That 's about 250 unsolicited items per man , woman and child ( five times the per capita junk volume in Britain ) . |
| 16 | That 's about six times the present number . |
| 17 | That 's about enough for one blast from Arnie Schwarzenegger 's Terminator gun . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's about eighty miles north of here . |
| 19 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 20 | ( That 's about two peanuts , or half an orange . ) |
| 21 | I can remember we went to erm , oh cos we moved out of Harlow did n't we when Nick was eleven months old so that 's about fifteen years ago and lived in Hatfield for three years , so , and we used to go to Welwyn Department Store then and , and look at stuff . |
| 22 | Noting the somewhat limited kinds of talk generated , the teacher commented that this no doubt reflected the limitations of the activities themselves : ‘ That 's about as much as you could expect to get out of them . ’ |
| 23 | … [ Take ] temperature — you 've got a thermometer in the car but you begin to feel what is about thirty degrees C. You sense that that 's about thirty . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's about right , ’ Connors butted in . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's about £5,000 . |
| 26 | If you do a crime and get about thirty pounds , that 's about enough for one week . |
| 27 | All Annamese peasants — and that 's about eighty percent of the population worship invisible spirits . |
| 28 | Well there 'd be dying and scouring and tacking sorting , trimming , packing , drying , all kind , you know that that 's about total number of departments , brushing . |
| 29 | That 's about seventy-five years ago . |
| 30 | It affects about one in 2,500 babies in this country — that 's about 250 babies a year — boys and girls equally . |