Example sentences of "[is] about [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | he 's about eight , he falls on the ground , he 's not really hurt , his legs are tangled up in his bike and he 's trying to get up . |
2 | ‘ Golly , they say it 's about eight feet tall , black as pitch , covered in scales , breathing brimstone and smashing in the top of the army tank . ’ |
3 | ‘ There 's about eight screws . ’ |
4 | There 's about there 's about eight acres at the moment . |
5 | Well there 's about eight people |
6 | It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out . |
7 | Before you get the bills it 's about eight weeks they said now . |
8 | He 's about eight weeks old . |
9 | Aye but they 've got it now , there 's about eight copies out on the , all on the shelf gathering dust . |
10 | Ee , I mean if everything went alright , it 's about eight hours is n't it ? |
11 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
12 | Er it 's about eight year old . |
13 | Well that means to me it 's about eight o'clock I 'll get there |
14 | Er , I wondered about this erm this Tory high flyer , about whom er , my friend over there speaks with such admiration and envy , he must have a tremendous influence because I wonder , had he been the mover behind the fact that this V A T on fuel is is there in every other country in Europe including Ireland where it 's about eleven percent . |
15 | Right so that 's about eleven pounds a month . |
16 | I think the average figure 's about nineteen percent . |
17 | ‘ She 's about nineteen . ’ |
18 | Oh it 's about nineteen sixty , yeah . |
19 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
20 | No I think it 's about nineteen hundred that one |
21 | Because that 's about broad Yorkshire . |
22 | It 's about seventeen hundred people in there . |
23 | you know the little one with the glasses she 's about fortyish |
24 | It 's about halfway between London and Edinburgh , about level with Liverpool and Hull , and it 's easy to get to by train , plane or automobile . |
25 | I can remember we went to erm , oh cos we moved out of Harlow did n't we when Nick was eleven months old so that 's about fifteen years ago and lived in Hatfield for three years , so , and we used to go to Welwyn Department Store then and , and look at stuff . |
26 | Even the concept 's about fifteen years out of date . ’ |
27 | Yeah , I know it 's about fifteen P and |
28 | Well it 's about fifteen quid and that leaves us the opportunity to get six or eight |
29 | Well it 's erm it 's erm it 's about , I think it 's about eighteen thirty three thirty four . |
30 | I 've got three internal walls and the wall 's about eighteen inches thick with a double glazed window . |