Example sentences of "probably about [art] " in BNC.

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1 RAF Swinderby was ‘ contractorised ’ as far back as the 1960s because the ending of National Service led to a shortage of cooks and stewards and now ther are probably about a score of units which work a mainly 9–5 day , or where the numbers are fairly small , that may be most suitable for ‘ contractorising ’ .
2 I pulled into the farmyard and bounced the BMW over the cobbles to where half a dozen cars were parked in front of the farmhouse , a long , low stone building probably about a century old .
3 In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year .
4 There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays .
5 He 's telling stories probably about the past what is he showing ?
6 I do n't know erm , probably about the same , then .
7 Probably about the maximum you can use .
8 All in honour of the Macmillan Nurses , so it was probably about the most worthwhile thing I have done since becoming an MP .
9 I still think the P A G is probably about the right size body is n't it ?
10 Er at they 're ten per cent underneath and historically , a couple of years ago , you 're talking two or three times the price , their prices at one period , probably about the mid to late eighties , doubled and trebled in price .
11 So it was probably about the nineteen what early seventies coffin making would stop on Sanday .
12 It is probably about the turn of the century , late C19th , something like that , in typical homes at that time — fairly well off , but leading a simple lifestyle .
13 It is hard to say what the theme of the book is , but I would say that it was probably about the development of the relationship between Finn and Jim through their adventures .
14 Oh , Vincent 's one , eh Roger 's probably about the next best man , better of the two of us that 's why .
15 So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think .
16 But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same
17 No probably about the softest
18 No it 's probably about the same .
19 Probably probably about the same as that .
20 We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us .
21 He concluded that a single-bladed knife had been used ; the blade was probably about an inch wide ; Newley 's assailant had stood in front of him ; the slant of the stab wounds suggested that the assailant was right-handed , like go per cent of the human race .
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