Example sentences of "[be] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 2 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 3 | But it 's been for about two month now , but it 's |
| 4 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 5 | World official gold reserves are worth about $350 billion at today 's prices . |
| 6 | The wasps are worth about $7000 . |
| 7 | ‘ The Baskerville lands are worth about one million pounds , ’ Dr Mortimer said . |
| 8 | They are worth about a million . |
| 9 | The only artist I know that brings to mind that I think is absolutely brilliant is David Sheppard , You got a print on his works and its only one of a hundred prints , and even his prints are worth about a thousand pounds . |
| 10 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 11 | In orders where the wings are of about equal area these two thoracic segments are of equal size e.g. Isoptera , Embioptera , Odonata . |
| 12 | and they 're worth about three grand so anyway erm , I said I 'll pick your birds up tomorrow and , cos I |
| 13 | BP PROPERTIES has sold a central London office to EIE International , the Japanese property investment group , in a deal thought to be worth about £200m . |
| 14 | The house , thought to be worth about £3,000 by the lawyers , in fact went for less . |
| 15 | The first results of the order — said to be worth about £81 million — are due on the network this summer . |
| 16 | Yorkshire 's chief executive , Chris Hassall , was in Bombay yesterday with a one-year contract believed to be worth about £30,000 for the record-breaking teenager . |
| 17 | The first results of the order — said to be worth about £81 million — are due on the network this summer . |
| 18 | The average outstanding debt on a credit card in 1979 was £95 , compared with £292 today — but , at 1979 rates , this would be worth about £124 . |
| 19 | MoD is offering a ten-year contract , thought to be worth about £30 million , for the operation of RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire , currently home to the Royal Navy Elementary Flying Training School equipped with BAe Bulldogs . |
| 20 | GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has won a volume supply contract with Conner Peripherals Inc projected to be worth about $100m over the next 30 months . |
| 21 | Direct sales computer manufacturer Elonex Plc , London N has won a two-year contract , estimated to be worth about £1m , to supply 80486-based desktop computers and network servers to the northwest regional electricity supplier Norweb Plc . |
| 22 | The deal is expected to be worth about £300 million , with the aircraft probably being used on Virgin 's Tokyo service and other long-haul routes . |
| 23 | Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more . |
| 24 | He estimated the goods to be worth about £3,000 . |
| 25 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
| 26 | He died in Bethnal Green 14 July 1839 ; he was reputed to be worth about £300,000 , ‘ though he always appeared to be in poor circumstances ’ . |
| 27 | The help would be worth about £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) in the first year . |
| 28 | In 1988 , for example , the online market in the United States was estimated by analysts Frost & Sullivan to be worth about US$6 billion with an overall annual growth rate of 20 per cent . |
| 29 | During the 1987 expedition a suitcase containing jewellery , gold coins and bank notes was recovered , among other artefacts believed to be worth about £38m . |
| 30 | at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one . |