Example sentences of "there [is] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's about as much real passion in the passage against the Gulf war quoted by Rose Jennings as in the shrink-wrapped volumes on a newsagent 's top shelf . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ There 's about a trillion to one chance of Senna coming in and I think Frank Williams would get lynched . |
| 3 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |
| 4 | I think there 's about half a pint left . |
| 5 | It 's funny er even even though there 's about five free paper 's er sometimes there is n't a write up at all I 'm not talking about your your panel . |
| 6 | Well , my S&M educational video is still being censored ( there 's about a minute left ) … oh , I see what you mean ! |
| 7 | There 's about six or seven mothers with children in this corridor I see every day . |
| 8 | Yes , would you like to see , there 's about three |
| 9 | It 's like that , it 's a little bit like it 's a little bit like The Bill because there 's about four or five different conversations . |
| 10 | There 's about five people you can get really to dislike in this class is n't there ? |
| 11 | So the actual shareholders themselves , I think there 's about forty one thousand of them , in total are quite a big threat to basically the the management of the company at the moment with regards to the direction of the company and the actual opportunities er for the future expansion and development of products and various market segments etcetera . |
| 12 | but then there 's about four or five of them then . |
| 13 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 14 | I think there 's about seventy or women in it , but there used to be must have been about , maybe about eighty or ninety women |
| 15 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 16 | Or Helen , or Mary , or Carla — there 's about ten of them , all with the same message . |
| 17 | Erm there 's about two hundred acres of woodlands do you see . |
| 18 | Oh yeah there 's about twelve of them yeah when they bend down their trousers fall down . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's about eight screws . ’ |
| 21 | There 's about there 's about eight acres at the moment . |
| 22 | There 's about there 's about eight acres at the moment . |
| 23 | There 's about five unpredictable variables in all of this , which is essentially |
| 24 | Well there 's about eight people |
| 25 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 26 | I think there 's about two grand in there but |
| 27 | I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you . |
| 28 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 29 | Er there 's about twelve other guys . |
| 30 | And then what about the remainder of the old because there 's about four thousand cubic metres of that . |