Example sentences of "which was [adv] about " in BNC.

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1 The first of which was probably about twenty years after it was built .
2 ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed .
3 There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside .
4 I picked him up and stumbled over the rough ground to the back gate of our garden , which was only about twenty yards away .
5 At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away .
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