Example sentences of "it [verb] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes about fifteen feet . |
| 2 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 3 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 4 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 5 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 6 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 7 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 8 | It has about 300,000 cards in circulation in the UK — a million less than American Express . |
| 9 | It has about 200 branches , the most active in the North , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 11 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 12 | The Halifax says it has about 505,000 Tessa account holders , with an average first-year balance of £2,700 , giving a total of around £1.4bn . |
| 13 | Currently , it has about 550,000 motor policies in force ; last year , in terms of written premiums , it wrote £84m , and this year it is looking at £150m-plus . |
| 14 | Commanded by a major , it has about 250 officers and soldiers , organised into six platoons , and employs over seventy German civilians . |
| 15 | It uses about twenty pence during night , not forty . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact * IF * there was a pull , it happened about 2 yards outside the box . |
| 17 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 18 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 19 | Like it 's thi , they buy all that stuff , yeah , but if they 're stuff like , it costs about ten pounds or more |
| 20 | They always say the thought might be worse and to , we know it costs about , it costs about ten pound to buy well , I think at the end of the day worth it , is to put them out on a paper plate . |
| 21 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 22 | Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit , even if you cable both ways . |
| 23 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 24 | It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit . |
| 25 | It takes about two hours to watch it |
| 26 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 27 | The nearest star , called Proxima Centauri , is found to be about four light-years away ( the light from it takes about four years to reach Earth ) , or about twenty-three million million miles . |
| 28 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
| 29 | It takes about five minutes to set it up before you retire to bed , and if you come back downstairs for something you have to cancel it and start all over again . |
| 30 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |