Example sentences of "but [ex0] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug was eventually withdrawn but there are about 300 young adults alive today who were affected . |
| 2 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 3 | Usually about 20 to 40 birds are involved , but there were about 200 in 1964 . |
| 4 | Yeah but there were about three |
| 5 | Ninety-five per cent of people sent in tickets or wrist bands but there were about 300 people who sent in anything from bank statements to photocopies , which is where the problem has arisen . |