Example sentences of "'s about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only problem is it 's about a year too soon for us . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ There 's about a trillion to one chance of Senna coming in and I think Frank Williams would get lynched . |
| 3 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 4 | Well , my S&M educational video is still being censored ( there 's about a minute left ) … oh , I see what you mean ! |
| 5 | At the time of writing this outro it 's about a week after Easter , and everyone ( except Phil ) is swearing off Easter eggs for life — or at least till next April . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's about a thousand pounds . ’ |
| 7 | That 's about a year ago now . |
| 8 | It 's about a hundred years old . |
| 9 | That 's about a third of an inch of rain overnight and again it 's gon na be wet for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it . |
| 11 | An analogue watch user will just glance at the timepiece and say , ‘ … it 's about a quarter to five ’ . |
| 12 | You 've got it factorized like this , you could just , oh , that 's about a million . |
| 13 | We we need to hire a minibus it 's about a hundred and seventy quid for the week . |
| 14 | It 's about a hundred miles from Vitez to Split but they have to cross and recross the front lines in a war that 's unpredictable . |
| 15 | I think it 's about a week or something . |
| 16 | no , no , no , that 's what I ca n't understand , no I think it 's about a hundred years old you see , probably |
| 17 | Next year , year 's topic will be nuclear , nuclear physics , it 's fucking massive , it 's about a hundred topics |
| 18 | But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah . |
| 19 | So Cheltenham is about there , and it 's about a hundred and twenty miles from Cheltenham to London . |
| 20 | It 's about a hundred and thirty miles from us down to Penzance . |
| 21 | I E it , it , it 's it 's about a quarter so you , you 're on five , six hundred calories a day . |
| 22 | That information is only part of the very large store of information that we need to retain in our own local computer , which contains records about erm it 's about a hundred and fifty thousand of our four hundred and fifty thousand different books at this moment . |
| 23 | That information is only part of the very large store of information that we need to retain in our own local computer , which contains records about , oh it 's about a hundred and fifty thousand of our four hundred and fifty thousand different books at this moment . |
| 24 | We have a budget — I think it 's about a million pounds in total on this — it 's a hundred thousand , so it 's one in ten over any one year less that we 'll be able to care for in this way . |
| 25 | Today 's journey time from Swindon to Paddington 's about an hour . |
| 26 | That 's about an hour in n it ? |
| 27 | But when we stopped in Bahrain out in Hong Kong , well when we got into Hong Kong , you get this little tiny cup it 's about an eighth of the size of that bloody thing , and it 's thick and it 's horrible , their coffee . |
| 28 | Tell him there 's about an hour 's work . |
| 29 | it 's about an hour and a half to cook a chicken . |