Example sentences of "be about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rooms are about a two minute walk away in the Loutrouvia annexe . |
| 2 | Stories of his private life are rife , the latest headlines are about a broken marriage , custody of the children and the inevitable dressing-room disagreements . |
| 3 | Within the gardens there is a small swimming pool for relaxing days in the sun and when you are ready to venture further afield , the nearest shops are about a mile away and Torre Canne beach is an eight mile drive away . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 5 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 6 | Well , the unit that we use there is the light year , which is the distance that light can travel in one year , and the nearest stars are about a light year away . |
| 7 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 8 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 9 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 10 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 11 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 12 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |
| 13 | Inside the computer if you open up the computer you see these little chips , silicon chips they 're about a centimetre perhaps in length and you 'll see a row of , nine or ten of them , that 's physically what the memory is . |
| 14 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 15 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 16 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 17 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 18 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 19 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 20 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 21 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 22 | It has been estimated , for example , that a compound eye would need to be about a metre across to match the resolution of our eyes . |
| 23 | Your Trail will be about a mile long . |
| 24 | Those again would be about a yard wide and a yard deep , then you had a a big er wire with a loop on one end with a sharp point . |
| 25 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 26 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 27 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 28 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 29 | and I mean I 've got s it 's not as bad going back from here cos it 'll only be about a six hour then . |
| 30 | Yes , this standard is alright , but the championship would be about a sixteen . |