Sentence examples of "are about" in English

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Translations: all40 être sur le point31 s'agir1 other translations8
They are about the same age. Ils sont à peu près du même âge.
Prices are about to go up again. Les prix vont encore augmenter.
Those who are about to die salute you. Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent.
There are about seven billion people in the world. Environ sept milliards d'hommes vivent dans le monde.
There are about 1,000 students at our high school. Il y a environ 1000 étudiants à notre lycée.
While you are about it, please make some coffee for me. Pendant que tu y es, tu peux me faire du café s'il te plaît.
While you are about it, please make a cup of coffee for me, too. Tant que tu y es, merci de faire une tasse de café pour moi aussi.
Icelanders can read old sagas, but the writing and context have changed so much that they don't understand what the texts are about. Les Islandais peuvent lire de vieilles sagas, mais l'écriture et le contexte ont tellement changé qu'ils ne comprennent pas de quoi parlent les textes.
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