Example sentences of "it [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes about fifteen feet . |
| 2 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 3 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 4 | Yes what it say about four hundred ? |
| 5 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 6 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 7 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 8 | It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events : |
| 9 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 10 | We can date the ‘ oxygen revolution ’ — the time when oxygen became an important gas in the Earth 's atmosphere — fairly precisely : it occurred about 410 million years ago . |
| 11 | It has about 300,000 cards in circulation in the UK — a million less than American Express . |
| 12 | It has about 200 branches , the most active in the North , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 14 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 15 | The Halifax says it has about 505,000 Tessa account holders , with an average first-year balance of £2,700 , giving a total of around £1.4bn . |
| 16 | But , even though it has about half the population of a city like Leeds , the people there speak a total of three languages ! |
| 17 | Currently , it has about 550,000 motor policies in force ; last year , in terms of written premiums , it wrote £84m , and this year it is looking at £150m-plus . |
| 18 | Commanded by a major , it has about 250 officers and soldiers , organised into six platoons , and employs over seventy German civilians . |
| 19 | Each year it starts about 15 new research projects , in 1991 these will address such problems as the association between smoking and cervical cancer and why high blood pressure affects one in 10 pregnant women . |
| 20 | Mustafa got Arab engineers up from Tel Aviv to build it and it cost about 700 Palestinian pounds . |
| 21 | As to the liquor , it filled about half the coffin and in it ‘ feathers , flowers , and herbs in abundance were floating , the leaves and stalks of which appeared quite perfect , but totally discoloured ’ . |
| 22 | It uses about twenty pence during night , not forty . |
| 23 | Apart from the fact * IF * there was a pull , it happened about 2 yards outside the box . |
| 24 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 25 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 26 | Soon after I arrived , with the parish church nearly full ( it seats about 250 ) , Hartmut took a team of twelve out from the church to form a new congregation in a disused Brethren hall given to us free of charge . |
| 27 | We estimate that it costs about fourteen thousand pounds to train er and and recruit our our management staff . |
| 28 | It costs about three hundred pounds to be a pug person , that 's the price of a pedigree puppy . |
| 29 | But it costs about three hundred pounds . |
| 30 | It costs about 20 to make a tonne of waste derived fuel pellets and these have about half the calorific value of coal . |