Example sentences of "to be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 2 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 3 | The workforce , 4,300 before the revolution , is down to just over 3,000 ( including 1,000 employees on short-time ) ; the final figure is likely to be about 2,000 . |
| 4 | During model runs simulating the onset and the progress of the spring bloom the ‘ critical depth ’ was calculated to be about 55 m . |
| 5 | She seemed to be about seventeen or eighteen years old . |
| 6 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 7 | The slit mechanism between the camera and the artwork , instead of being a few inches long , had to be about six feet ( 1.8m ) long . |
| 8 | The world 's population , currently estimated to be about 5,300 million , was expected to increase by another 1,000 million by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Evelyn reckoned him to be about twenty-six if you allowed for the drink . |
| 10 | The group Dr Kaiser works with finds W to be about 0.8 ; Dr Dekel and his colleagues find much the same . |
| 11 | Commonly , a is chosen to be about 0.8 in which case , for a 5-period exponentially weighted moving average , we would have |
| 12 | Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer . |
| 13 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 14 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 15 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 16 | She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent , and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck . |
| 17 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 18 | Our Earth is believed to be about 4.5 billion ( 4500 million ) years old , and life is believed to have begun on it around 3.5 billion years ago . |
| 19 | I guessed her to be about twenty-two or three . |
| 20 | In a regional study including about 10% of the Danish population we found the population relative risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease among first degree relatives of patients with either disease to be about 10 , which strongly suggests that these disorders have a genetic cause . |
| 21 | The evidence for the dark matter comes from the temperature of the gas , which is found to be about 10 7 K. This is because the temperature is determined by the strength of the gravitational field , and the visible material alone ( the combination of the gas and the galaxies ) does not provide enough gravity to explain such a high value . |
| 22 | In the United States about 1% of infants born to colonised mothers develop group B streptococcal infection ; in northern Europe , including Britain , the incidence seems to be about 10 times lower . |
| 23 | The exact cost , and hence the viability , of the energy source remains to be determined , though it is projected to be about 10 pence a unit , five times the existing price of coal but only twice the cost of nuclear power . |
| 24 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |
| 25 | Jack is believed to be about nine months old but is painfully small because of constant neglect , said Mrs Taylor . |
| 26 | I reckoned it to be about nine months , so I asked him how long it had been . |
| 27 | There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now . |
| 28 | Total union membership in RENFE appears to be about 46 per cent of the workforce . |
| 29 | They said twelve , but I think really for the humour alone they needed to be about fifteen or sixteen because they did n't understand it . |
| 30 | whereas certain parts of their handling are going to be about fifteen twenty per cent |