Example sentences of "[vb infin] about six " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They 'll inherit about six million dollars each . ’
2 She did something to a man : made him feel about six , and caught with a warm jam puff from the kitchen table .
3 I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway .
4 You could keep about six Neolamprologus brevis in your tank .
5 One selling crockery could balance about six teaplates on one arm , a quick movement and they were in a neat pile in his hand .
6 I mean you could have a whole new roof put on your house and it would cost about six thousand , seven thousand pounds and
7 The top must measure about six feet by four feet … you can please yourself where you put the steps .
8 And we 'd perhaps make about six trips , and I think we used to get sixpence each for that .
9 The seven-member committee — dubbed the " God Squad " because of its power to override the Endangered Species Act — will have about six months to decide whether to grant an exemption to the provisions of the Act and permit logging to resume on 4,750 acres in 44 tracts owned by the Bureau of Land Management .
10 So let's have about six different characters , before we do it I 'd like you need drafting books , just to think of a few questions that you would ask the characters .
11 The survey will take about six months to complete .
12 IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect .
13 The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox .
14 The work , which will take about six years to complete , will provide a new operating block , intensive care unit , outpatients ' department , accident and emergency unit , medical records centre and new main entrance .
15 I 'll fill out a , I 'll take about six case up .
16 The election period , which will last about six months , was launched yesterday in Estonia and Latvia , where voters elected local soviets .
17 And make it last about six months .
18 I should say about six or seven .
19 So when we got overseas course we flew with the Ninety Second Bomb Group the Three Two Six Squadron and er all we were pretty well into our missions , I would say about six , seven , eight .
20 Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper .
21 It were n't a tenner each , must of been I would say about six quid each
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