Example sentences of "about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 2 | This year he seems to have got it just about right . |
| 3 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 4 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 5 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 6 | I think arts in the countryside are about right as they are . |
| 7 | My L.caeruleus and M.exasperatus have spawned , so things must be about right ! |
| 8 | This is one of those channels where it 's hard to find a bad sound ; everything set on 5 is about right , full-bodied but still jangly , exactly how it should be . |
| 9 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 10 | The weight is about right , if compared to a similar Fender , and the slightly elongated top horn helps the bass to balance well , falling as it does in line with the twelfth fret . |
| 11 | The Mad Axe 's very impressive acoustic sustain helps a lot on clean settings , and for rich , Knopfler-type sounds the pickups are voiced just about right . |
| 12 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 13 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 14 | This survey suggests that the Health Department has got it just about right . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's just about right . |
| 16 | Too fast and you lose your balance going round the bend.Around 12 miles an hour is about right , controlled by relaxed knees . |
| 17 | A day 's about right , you ask any woman . |
| 18 | These are ideal for our purpose and by late summer should be just about right . |
| 19 | The budget was about right , except for the extras we added later , and we got it finished in the summer . |
| 20 | At minimum heat and in a heavy well-closed pot stood on the floor of the oven rather than on a shelf , the timing would be however just about right . |
| 21 | I think the proportion of students following joint honours physical science courses ( physics/ maths , chemistry/physics , etc. ) is about right , but there is room for more students on combined biological/physical science degrees . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's about right , ’ Connors butted in . |
| 23 | Do you think that is about right ? |
| 24 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 25 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 26 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 27 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 28 | We believe that the level is about right , although in a sense it always has to be arbitrary . |
| 29 | In the end I suppose a tie is just about right . |
| 30 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |