Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large brown tent was about 300 feet in length , with a seating capacity of some 750 , and they called the travelling performances Chatauqua . |
| 2 | The Jacobite losses were about 40 dead and 90 wounded . |
| 3 | The handle of crudely carved oak was about eighteen inches long and might , he thought , have once been part of a heavy walking stick . |
| 4 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 5 | For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent . |
| 6 | In the mid-1820s the total number of despatches sent and received each year by the foreign office was about 12,000 . |
| 7 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 8 | In Pomerania the average holding was about 5 hectares ( 13–14 acres ) of very poor soil , and even with Herculean effort on the part of the farmer it was clear that the payment of one sixth of profits made purchase almost impossible . |
| 9 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 10 | I mean the lowest turn out in any of the constituencies in , in the general election was much higher than the turn out in local government , I think the lowest turn out in any individual constituency was about fifty four percent in the general election . |
| 11 | In 1991 total spending in real terms was about 18 per cent higher than in 1979 . |
| 12 | The average age was about 16 5 and some of the more distinctive dress elements were present . |
| 13 | Their average age was about twenty-five . |
| 14 | The average age was about twenty three I think . |
| 15 | The outside yard was about seven feet in width and bordered by the kitchen wall . |
| 16 | Mrs Sheridan said the average number was about 120 , but at times there were more than 200 . |
| 17 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 18 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 19 | In Wester Ross , for example , the nearest agricultural engineer was about 80 miles away . |
| 20 | Within a year Cotter 's union was accepted by the Board of Trade as having more than 3,600 members and within two he was claiming 15,000 , mostly in Liverpool but also in Southampton , though a more likely figure was about 9,000 . |
| 21 | The volume of pancreatic acini isolated from the saline treated rats was about 2.2 ( 0.3 ) ml per pancreas , whereas that from the rats infused with caerulein and injected with platelet activating factor it was significantly ( p<0.05 ) lower and declined to about 0.8 ( 0.1 ) ml and 0.9 ( 0.2 ) ml , respectively . |
| 22 | The little girl was about four , a pretty child with curly fair hair and chubby cheeks . |
| 23 | He said the life expectancy of a large bus was about 15 years , while minibuses would be unlikely to be viable for longer than eight years . |
| 24 | In the higher liability classes the probability of an affected individual being heterozygous or homozygous for the major allele was about 0.10 . |
| 25 | The interior space was about three metres across , a pastel yellow in colour , tubular and bulked out with strange-looking machinery which was attached to the crosshatched ‘ walls ’ . |
| 26 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 27 | In general , the first growth of German , French and Belgian railways was about 30 years after the first British lines . |
| 28 | We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production . |
| 29 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 30 | And in spring and autumn , when the bats were most active , densities in the illuminated sections were about 20 times those in the unlit areas . |