Example sentences of "[pron] [be] about fifteen " in BNC.

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1 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
2 I remember being rather keen on Bert when I was about fifteen .
3 So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit .
4 I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland .
5 I was about fifteen .
6 Aye till I were till I was about fifteen and we we went to live at .
7 I started there when I was about fifteen and er erm they used to breed about er six hundred pheasants there you see .
8 And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there .
9 And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all .
10 But I received my first one of these from er from Lloyds er Black Knights er services because I was in I was about fifteen miles away .
11 When it does happen , which is about fifteen , twenty percent there is a successful well , pregnancy baby at the end of it .
12 Which is about fifteen pounds .
13 Actually the best bit was the giant stride in , which was about fifteen feet high .
14 Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year .
15 There was one girl there today , she was about fifteen or seventeen and she had to put her coat on over the top of the gown because it was
16 We well , the wee boy , I think , maybe about seven , the other one may be about ten , and the other one be about fifteen .
17 I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins !
18 are still quite , quite around a lot , there 's not many of them , there are about fifteen , twenty , there 's not that many P fifty one Mustang 's either crying shame in it ?
19 We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces .
20 There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing .
21 He said there were about fifteen volumes .
22 By 1918 , when the President retired , there were about fifteen hundred members and twenty-two branches .
23 I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing .
24 Aye , Rob said there was about fifteen accounts out
25 I think they 're about fifteen something like that , fifteen , sixteen , really depends whether you buy needlecord or erm this thickish cord
26 those boxes of crackers are about I think they 're about fifteen pound a box and the three
27 I know one was called Tom , that was a grey one and the other one was a bay and they was about fifteen hands , that 's what they stood .
28 Yeah , I know it 's about fifteen P and
29 Well it 's about fifteen quid and that leaves us the opportunity to get six or eight
30 It was about fifteen feet wide and ran strongly .
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