Example sentences of "er [pron] [modal v] be [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was er she 'd be about thirty six the first one , and er she did n't come to work one day and er the girl , in the afternoon the girl c , her daughter , she was fifteen , er she came to speak to me and she said er , Oh , I said , Hello , how 's your mum , is she poorly ? |
| 2 | Erm at the time when I took er office as a shop steward , er there was approximately two hundred and fifty apprentices and er there would be about six hundred shop floor workers and the rest er were complement to the staff . |
| 3 | Er it would be about nineteen seventy perhaps . |
| 4 | Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time . |
| 5 | Which perhaps not revolutionary but to me it was er it was but of all these things that er we 've done lots of things you know , but the thing that I , that stands out in my memory is is that er it 'd be about nineteen forty eight , there was a a one of the old members who I worked with was , lived alone and he was very ill . |
| 6 | I could remember one case I had , er he 'd be about eight . |