Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 2 | She was only about five feet tall , thin and blonde with a bony London face , and her stick-like legs were not enhanced by the thick , grey Waaf stockings and flat lace-up shoes we all had to wear . |
| 3 | She was only about five feet tall , if that , and the kid , a big healthy specimen , seemed to be only a few inches off the floor . |
| 4 | no , maybe I was only about five , maybe it was twenty years ago |
| 5 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |
| 6 | Education the other day was up about five or six per cent . |
| 7 | We we it 's it 's always difficult in January to say how many people are going to be there to take part , but we last year it was about about five hundred I think . |
| 8 | I was there about five after nine . |