Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firefighters were called out at about seven thirty this morning . |
| 2 | just cos you , you were coming out with about two hundred and fifty quid a week for working seven nights a week ! |
| 3 | I arrived home at about tea-time , we talked a bit , the children were charging around until about 7 p.m. , when they had their baths , and by 9 p.m. they were in bed . |
| 4 | She said , a bus was flagged down by about seven , six policeman she claimed . |
| 5 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 6 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 7 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |