Example sentences of "call it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 2 | Boswell measured the water journey from Glenelg as twelve miles ; the boatman called it six miles , confusing old logical Johnson with the assertion that a mile on the land equated to two on the sea . |
| 3 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 4 | This is going to be a lot more erm , let's call it two pages and five pages . |
| 5 | And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings . |
| 6 | You might as well call it thirty thousand |
| 7 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 8 | The statistical table shows that the barometric pressure at mean sea level varies from about 1014 to 1017 mb This gives an average of just over 1015.5 mb For practical purposes , we can call it 1016 mb |
| 9 | Let's call it ten quid . |
| 10 | Foo says it was twice as big as anything else that day , which would make it sixty to seventy feet from base to crest ; some called it eighty feet . |
| 11 | Call it fifty miles . |
| 12 | From twenty to seventy say seven call it seventy five . |
| 13 | Call it 1.5 billion years ago . |
| 14 | The distance is given as 212 miles in the AA book — call it 200 miles . |
| 15 | ‘ See the post where the little owl has perched ? ’ said the helpful Warden , ‘ call it twelve o'clock , try coming down to a quarter past , near those three lap wings … there 's a chance … ’ |
| 16 | and just call it one point one nine |
| 17 | So we 've said that , so that 's a hundred interview sheets twelve hours in a day usually , unless your name 's Billy , twelve hours in a , half a day , should of said , so that 's twelve hundred times two two thousand four hundred so that 's half a box , call it two and a half thousand |
| 18 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 19 | now , call it eighty five plus tapes , got loads over the wings of love |
| 20 | Call it twenty . |
| 21 | Call it three . |