Example sentences of "we about " in BNC.

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1 That 's what I 'm saying we about forty or fifty pound , forty , got a big different now on , some I 've seen like
2 So are we about to see a kinder , gentler Dolph ?
3 The question remains : is the hard hit property market in the US forcing Taubman to liquidate some cash in the normal course of business or are we about to see greater shifts in York Avenue and Bond Street ?
4 Are we about to hear an Opposition spokesman telling us their tax plans ?
5 Are we about to witness that again ?
6 Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ?
7 Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ?
8 Are we about to be taken over by the machine ?
9 Come for us about eight o'clock . ’
10 Behind us about 30 boys from other gangs followed our example .
11 Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted .
12 Even so , it took us about two years to get a guitar tone that worked .
13 This will take us about three months to complete after which we will concentrate on fitting brake and lubrication gear .
14 No trace , but from our description one saleroom — it was Christie 's — quoted us about thirty thousand pounds . ’
15 I 'll be in the front ter show 'im the way an' it should take us about twenty minutes ter Wappin' .
16 It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle .
17 ‘ They outnumber us about twelve to one . ’
18 For the next five weeks , our world would consist of these cliffs , the tundra below and the seashore , an area that took us about five hours to walk around .
19 cost us about three grand .
20 , John ( fl. 1415–1450 ) , composer , has left us about twenty compositions whose style proclaims him to have been a slightly younger contemporary of John Dunstable [ q.v. ] , perhaps a close disciple .
21 ‘ They fed us about five times on the plane , ’ he said .
22 six hundred pounds , the pitch fees about seven hundred pounds , bowls club pay us three hundred and fifty pounds , the tennis club for the two years , subscriptions will be twelve hundred pounds , the fair three hundred and fifty pound for two visits , erm one hundred and seventy five each visit , and the rugby club will pay us about three hundred pounds for the use of the pitch on ground .
23 If each of them lasts as long as Earth , that gives us about a billion billion billion planet-years to play with .
24 ‘ It will take us about an hour to get there .
25 We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end .
26 If however we put the bikes on the car , the return journey to Dunblane will cost us about £5 in petrol , plus say 50p. to cover other marginal costs .
27 That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half .
28 It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say .
29 We have succeeded since in getting it down to something just over thirty four percent now er and erm therefore we are not much above our original work share but each percentage point of equipment costs us about ten million pounds extra .
30 It costs us about 30p a meal .
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