Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 2 | The country 's third five-year plan was due to end in June 1990 ; economic growth under the period of the plan was estimated at about 3 per cent per annum , less than the 5.5 per cent annual target . |
| 3 | In the District , and in contrast to the national trend , Tutorial Classes virtually doubled between 1925 and 1931 — from thirteen to twenty-five and their membership was composed of about one-third of students from manual occupations . |
| 4 | The total turnout was estimated at about 52 per cent of the electorate . |
| 5 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 6 | It remained a circular route but the distance was shortened to about thirty-two miles ( fifty kilometres ) , virtually the same course as the present one . |
| 7 | This new kind of organisation was formed from about 1820 onwards mainly in towns with a substantial number of deaf and dumb people . |
| 8 | The station was recaptured after about three hours by soldiers loyal to the government , after firing in which two soldiers were killed . |
| 9 | By 1992 the collection was reduced to about 20 vehicles , and further rationalization was called for to dispose of those which were non-revenue earning . |
| 10 | A start was delayed until about eight o'clock . |
| 11 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 12 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 13 | This trend was interrupted at about 11,000 -10,300 B.P. by a widespread climatic deterioration that resulted in the redevelopment or expansion of corrie glaciers and small ice-caps in the Scottish Highlands , the so-called Loch Lomond stadial . |
| 14 | The cream boat or cream jug were introduced from about 1740 and are similar to the sauce-boat , though smaller . |
| 15 | The line was closed for about half an hour while firemen dealt with the blaze . |
| 16 | In the years 1880–1913 the number of land purchasing agencies and co-operatives associated with the Land Purchase Bank was to rise from about 120 to nearly 300 . |
| 17 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 18 | and if the house was , and if the house is , if say for argument sake that the house after you 've sold it , you 've only your , er fourteen or sixteen thousand pounds to pay then and you 've paid that off , right , and the house was sold for about forty thousand |
| 19 | The fire was discovered at about 2.30 am on Saturday and was quickly brought under control by three fire crews from Manningtree and Colchester . |