Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] about [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A total output of about 25,000 army and air force decrypts per month from Hut 6 was increased to about 48,000 each month between the autumn of 1943 and the end of the war . |
| 4 | The annual prevalence rate for the entire population of Greater Glasgow in 1983 was estimated at about 4 known opioid users per 1,000-the same as in Wirral . |
| 5 | A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm — one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles — was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects . |
| 6 | The club , which met weekly every Wednesday evening throughout the Parliamentary session ( usually at the Bell Tavern , Westminster ) , was composed of about 150 Tory backbenchers , and its main aim was to function as a pressure group to urge a more Tory policy on the Harley ministry . |