Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 25 gallons of fuel in each tank and our take-off weight was about 3,440 lbs which left another 360 lbs for more fuel with another passenger and some baggage . |
| 2 | So in the Spring of thirteen sixty , and they said that this was much more complicated , most of the timbers dated from about fourteen fifty although there was one that dated from twelve eighty nine and clearly was renewed and one of the roof timbers was about fifteen twenty , perhaps a repair . |
| 3 | The theoretical wheel load was about 20 tons , but since the wheels were in pairs , and not suspended on flexible bogeys , unless the rails were level , the wheels on the higher level might be carrying the load for the pair . |
| 4 | He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him . |
| 5 | The riding stables were about half an hour 's drive from the college . |
| 6 | I think the , I mean the , the huge drop that we had in situations vacant advertising in ninety , nineteen ninety one , when we fell from , I mean our job advertising was about twenty million pounds in nineteen ninety and was down to about eleven million in ninety one . |
| 7 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 8 | The Zimbabwe dollar fell by 47 per cent against the dollar in 1991 and the annual inflation rate was about 30 per cent . |
| 9 | The production of consumer goods was about one-quarter of normal . |
| 10 | The plastic box was about seven inches long and five across . |
| 11 | The lift shaft was about three foot deep . |
| 12 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 13 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 14 | The Bajamunde farm was about 10 minutes — 15p , with a tip — along the coast by trishaw , an undemanding trip ( even for the driver ) , through a long avenue of palms beside the beach . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the calculations set out in the box suggest that the number of children under the age of 16 living with lone mothers in 1981 and largely or totally dependent on state benefits was about 544000 in England and Wales . |
| 16 | In 1934 the population of the entire Free City area was about 400,000 and of these 50,000 were Polish or Kaszubian . |
| 17 | Coal traffic was about 300 tons a day . |
| 18 | Taking the two tests together , the difference between the Scots and the world champions was about 20 points . |
| 19 | In Hungary the birth prevalence of all congenital abnormality entities was about 65 per 1000 births ( table I ) . |
| 20 | Using the ancient method , the maximum zinc content was about 28 per cent , but as the process developed this increased to about 33 per cent . |
| 21 | Hazelhead Bridge was about halfway between Penistone and Dunford . |
| 22 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 23 | Oh , and bu by the way Margot was about half an hour late for work that morning and that was the story that we got . |
| 24 | Total construction time was about 200 hours including installation of the movement and assembly of the various parts . |
| 25 | Among the younger men in our study the maximum relative risk for coronary heart disease was about 2.0 for both the periodontal index and the oral hygiene index . |
| 26 | The men on Christmas Island were about 12 miles away from where it was detonated . |