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 .
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