Example sentences of "there was about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't really big , there was about thirty of us , about a dozen er waggon repairers and er and er a apprentices . |
| 2 | There was about four inches of water inside . |
| 3 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 4 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 5 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |
| 6 | No no no , och there was about twenty or thirty fires in the place . |
| 7 | and the old B M K s well there was about er two hundred people in the department that 's when everything was boom boom . |
| 8 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 9 | I mean er you see th I should say there was about six or seven who were keen on , on , on the trade union . |
| 10 | There was about five hundred pounds too much . |
| 11 | We landed in Bangkok this is where we had to change planes , there was about an hour and a half wait so we had plenty of time to look around the duty free . |
| 12 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 13 | I think at erm , at the peak time there was about two hundred and twenty six drivers and conductors . |
| 14 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 15 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 16 | Well when I started I 'm sure there was about twenty . |
| 17 | Oh there was about two dozen boys and a lot of men there , there was about a hundred working in that place then . |
| 18 | Oh there was about two dozen boys and a lot of men there , there was about a hundred working in that place then . |
| 19 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 20 | There was about six to start with . |
| 21 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 22 | There was about fifty percent full the house of Commons was about fifty percent full which I thought was a little worrying . |
| 23 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 24 | At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed . |
| 25 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 26 | There was about a minute to go before she should pin a friendly , but nothing more , type of smile on her face and leave her room . |
| 27 | She says ; There was about 18 inches between the car and the wall , his face was covered in blood and he was severely traumatised . |
| 28 | There was about half an hour when It was impossible to sleep because of the noise of military aircraft |
| 29 | There was about ten to fifteen thousand , which the limit on the , the ground limit today is about seventeen to eighteen as I can understand . |
| 30 | Then there there was about a thousand rounds of tonnite in the gun room in the magazine . |