Example sentences of "[noun pl] were about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs . |
| 2 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 3 | My worst feelings were about the bit of a temper I had , and all I can remember was my silent prayer , ‘ Lord , take this away ’ . ’ |
| 4 | No harm in making it clear what her feelings were about the architect . |
| 5 | By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it . |