Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 2 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 3 | During model runs simulating the onset and the progress of the spring bloom the ‘ critical depth ’ was calculated to be about 55 m . |
| 4 | The six year mortality from CHD in a population like this , getting only their usual physician 's care , was expected to be about 29 per 1000 . |
| 5 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 6 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 7 | What , it , it was going to be about twenty five pounds was n't it Jean ? |
| 8 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 9 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |
| 10 | In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt . |
| 11 | The upper critical field was estimated to be about 800,000 times stronger than the earth 's magnetic field , advantageous for applications of the superconductor . |