Example sentences of "are [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 2 | Most schemes allow you to do this if you are within about 10 years of normal retirement age but your pension may be reduced accordingly . |
| 3 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 4 | There are only about 550 Grade I listed properties in Norfolk , more than 400 of which are churches . |
| 5 | There are only about six mechanisms you actually need to know . |
| 6 | they would n't shore that up because there are only about eight houses up there , so it does n't pay them |
| 7 | By 15 September there are only about 10 000 . |
| 8 | Theirs was once a common line of business , but now there are only about two dozen professional burners left in the country . |
| 9 | It is serious , and children are most at risk , but there are only about two cases per million people each year . |
| 10 | ferns are only about two feet high . |
| 11 | There are only about two thousand Red Pandas left in their natural habitat , the foot hills of the Himalayas . |
| 12 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 13 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 14 | But the programme 's producer , Peter Kinkead , says it is more than a gimmick — despite the fact that there are only about 5500 Prestel sets in TVs 's catchment area . |
| 15 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 16 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |
| 17 | These toads are only about 2 centimetres long . |
| 18 | There are only about 400 homes in Milcombe . |
| 19 | Even now there are only about ten private herds of pedigree Kerries in Ireland . |
| 20 | Shetland ponies are normally about ten hands high , and range in colour . |
| 21 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 22 | There are already about 10 waste-to-energy plants in the UK . |
| 23 | There are already about 20 PHCN training schools in SA and most people acknowledge that this is an essential addition to the health service . |
| 24 | Small nuclear explosions underground ( they are already banned everywhere else ) are just about impossible to distinguish reliably from other sorts of man-made bangs or earthquakes . |
| 25 | ‘ I reckon , ’ said Angalo , looking down , ‘ that humans are just about intelligent enough to be crazy . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , I imagine you are just about ready for your course — pencils sharpened & bag packed . |
| 27 | They are just about ready to go out . |
| 28 | But skinny wee tyres like this thing 's got are just about ideal . ’ |
| 29 | However , the semicircular child 's shrimp nets are just about passable for occasional use . |
| 30 | Like Champion tops are usually about sixty quid and this was twenty . |