Example sentences of "would be about [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | but they 're erm , they 'd be about five hundred quid to buy for the two |
2 | Each man then , there was about , there 'd be about four or five men there , all had a number of girls working for them , and er they had to pay the wages out of what they earned . |
3 | Oh I should say there 'd be about thirty pupils there , mixed boys and girls . |
4 | One was er she 'd be about thirty six the first one , and er she did n't come to work one day and er the girl , in the afternoon the girl c , her daughter , she was fifteen , er she came to speak to me and she said er , Oh , I said , Hello , how 's your mum , is she poorly ? |
5 | ‘ I thought you 'd be about thirty or more , ’ he said lamely . |
6 | ‘ She 'd be about fifteen . ’ |
7 | Each of course you 'd be about seventeen years . |
8 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
9 | When I , when I first came out I bought one at er that 'd be about fifty quid somewhere round there , duck down |
10 | It 'd be about two year ago . |
11 | There 'd be about two or three hundred . |
12 | Well it 'd be about two pound every half a year . |
13 | ‘ In 1955 — he 'd be about six years old then . ’ |
14 | But er as a rule there 'd be about sixteen or there about . |
15 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
16 | I could remember one case I had , er he 'd be about eight . |
17 | Which perhaps not revolutionary but to me it was er it was but of all these things that er we 've done lots of things you know , but the thing that I , that stands out in my memory is is that er it 'd be about nineteen forty eight , there was a a one of the old members who I worked with was , lived alone and he was very ill . |
18 | So that 'd be about nineteen ninety would it ? |
19 | ‘ You 'd be about halfway there . ’ |
20 | My mother died when I 'd be about eleven . |
21 | Oh I should er I should think there 'd be about ten . |
22 | And there 'd be about ten or P ten or twelve people fucking watching Jerry walk up walk round that corner . |
23 | Oh I 'd oh I 'd be about three year old . |
24 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
25 | You see I I 'd be about seven . |
26 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
27 | I would be about 10 or 11 years old , and the biological urge was beginning to stir in my blood , though , truthfully , I had my first sexual intercourse at the age of 19 . |
28 | A 4 crane system would be about 10 metres wide — with a volume of about 4,800 m 3 . |
29 | Accordingly , among 25 countries , the reduction of infant deaths alone would range from 5 to 40 per cent ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 , p.17 ) and for the same 25 countries , the average reduction in infant mortality would be about 10 per cent and in death rates of children aged 1–4 years , 21 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
30 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |