Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remember , it 's for about three minutes only and the driver will be busy doing whatever it is inside the van . ’ |
| 2 | We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel . |
| 3 | it 's worth about that |
| 4 | It is worth about 3% of all Britain 's exports . |
| 5 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications has Nokia Oy , won an order for a trunked mobile radio system for the island of Java , Indonesia from PT Mobilkom Telekomindo : it is worth about $7m with an option for equipment worth another $7m ; the network is expected to have 40,000 subscribers in five years , and all the major islands of the archipelago will be included in later phases . |
| 6 | Considerable discussion , interlaced with esoteric mathematics , resulted in the general agreement that it was worth about the equivalent of one very fat sacrificial boar . |
| 7 | It was at about that time that I wrote a paper entitled — I hoped provocatively — ‘ What should a biochemistry of learning and memory be about ? ’ |