Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yeah , that 's right , yes I thought this girl was about seventeen , she had a mini skirt on |
| 2 | The tensile stress developed in this test was about 25,000 p.s.i . |
| 3 | The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids . |
| 4 | The turn-out on that day was about 2300 . |
| 5 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |