Example sentences of "were about fifteen " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 2 | He said there were about fifteen volumes . |
| 3 | By 1918 , when the President retired , there were about fifteen hundred members and twenty-two branches . |
| 4 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 5 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |