Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's parked about ten yards away from the pub , on the left .
2 The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region .
3 So we left and the boss told me that how he would work it out and how it would take probably something in the order of two thirds of that particular van that w we were going to use , if it was packed about six foot high .
4 When the collection was still in the palazzo ( it was moved about 60 years ago ) it was the most important private library in Milan .
5 It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco .
6 Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front .
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