Example sentences of "[be] about [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 2 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 3 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 4 | That 's about two and a quarter . |
| 5 | thirty six , he 's about three and a half |
| 6 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 7 | The overall differential is about two and a half to one . |
| 8 | The theorist is quite in line really with the reflector the average there is about twelve and a half . |
| 9 | That was when I was about fourteen and a half . |
| 10 | Mm it was about two and a half , three thousand . |
| 11 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 12 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 13 | I was about sixteen and a half then or going for seventeen aye . |