Example sentences of "it be about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 well not exact , obviously , I 'm not saying you remembered if it was a Tuesday morning or a Wednesday afternoon , but he gave you instructions according to Mr in February nineteen eighty seven , would it be about that time that you learnt of the instructions ?
2 Er about er what would it be about six or seven years after I left Skerrymor it went on fire .
3 Think it were about two .
4 Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I .
5 She rang me , oh it were about nine o'clock last night
6 and er I think it were about fourteen , fifteen hundred different places .
7 I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night !
8 Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ?
9 And er oh it , it were about seven o'clock and I said I 'll go and play with Len ti till half past , he says well be a , be back by half past eight .
10 when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning !
11 I think it were about half past seven , and then about an hour after it started .
12 That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’
13 In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning .
14 I think it 's about six .
15 We th to rehearse a little bit of the debate we had last time on speed cameras , th there was erm discussion about who should fund the camera themselves because being a , the Department of Transport and Home Office recommendation , that they should be funded by the police , but because of Mr 's question at full Council and the wish of this committee to spend some of this additional money if you like , or in ninety three four for safety related measures , it was thought wise to combine the two and actually try and fund a trial er package of speed cameras cos it 's , it 's about six sites and one camera , from the ninety three four budget that we 've actually found .
16 It 's about six feet in height and just about shoulder width , er it 's coloured black and it has a bullet proof glass window of about six inches by four inches which enables the er officer behind the shield to manoeuvre it in the correct position .
17 And then there 's er the the storm doors which are pulled in er during stormy weather and the the doors are oh about six inches th each plank and it 's about six inches thick .
18 Yeah cos it 's about six hours different .
19 Yeah , I know it 's about fifteen P and
20 Well it 's about fifteen quid and that leaves us the opportunity to get six or eight
21 It 's about 45 feet to putt but he holes it .
22 If you plant coffee it 's about five years before you can harvest any coffee .
23 Revamping it to use some of the existing film and to include new film and new voice over and new look , it 's about five or six thousand pounds .
24 It 's about five years , but they came unstuck on the Shropshire Union Canal at the Golden Nook , Chester , on Sunday , and now lie second to Irby AC .
25 Er it 's about five pound .
26 It 's about five I 've done in in two days .
27 It 's about five to six .
28 I think it 's about five thousand that we really require to establish and equip this unit .
29 I think it 's about five minutes is n't that right ?
30 It 's about four miles out of town on the Beach Road . ’
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