Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revisited ’ has only got about 15 minutes of decent songs — and eight of them are a live version of The Velvet Underground 's ‘ What Goes On ? ’ which is n't psychedelic at all , really . |
| 2 | Price Waterhouse has already made about 320 redundant since the start of the recession . |
| 3 | Four companies have already signed up to the scheme , and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more — it has already had about 20 applications . |
| 4 | The company has already beached about 150 000 tonnes of tin-bearing sand , processing it in a pilot plant to see if the technique will work . |
| 5 | The organisation has now registered about 200,000 people and in the last year registered more names than in the previous seven years . |
| 6 | She has now collected about nine or ten of my pictures , all of which contain some yellow roses , and has grouped them together beautifully in a small alcove . |
| 7 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 8 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 9 | She 'd only got about eight caravans then . |
| 10 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 11 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 12 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 13 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've only travelled about half a mile . ’ |
| 15 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 16 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 17 | We 've only got about three minutes to go on that . |
| 18 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 19 | I 've only got about three P . |
| 20 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 21 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 22 | But , then , he had only read about twelve pages . |
| 23 | His sleep had been heavy , but had only lasted about three quarters of an hour . |
| 24 | But I 've just explained about five times . |
| 25 | All day you feel as if you 've just had about ten handjobs . |
| 26 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 27 | In this case the pilot had possibly pulled about 5 g for 4 or 5 seconds . |
| 28 | But I 've , I 've still got about two hours , at least er , to do . |
| 29 | We 've still got about ten or eleven I think , have n't we ? |
| 30 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |