Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 2 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 3 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 4 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 5 | John Cranko was born at about six in the morning of 15 August 1927 , a Monday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 8 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 9 | Somebody there was crowing at about half past twelve , quarter to one this morning ! |
| 10 | The total turnout was estimated at about 52 per cent of the electorate . |
| 11 | The exact size of its staff is secret but was estimated at about 20,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The country 's third five-year plan was due to end in June 1990 ; economic growth under the period of the plan was estimated at about 3 per cent per annum , less than the 5.5 per cent annual target . |
| 15 | The ROK army had proved effective in assailing the infiltrators and guerrilla strength on 12 April 1950 was put at about 577 . |
| 16 | She was killed at about ten o'clock on Tuesday night . ’ |
| 17 | The fire was discovered at about 2.30 am on Saturday and was quickly brought under control by three fire crews from Manningtree and Colchester . |