Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be about [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 2 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 3 | Samples taken of this carbonaceous layer more than four miles inland were dated by the carbon-14 content and proved to be about 4000 years old ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 4 | In the drawing Therese appeared to be about seven feet tall and not at all overweight . |
| 5 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 6 | The museum , said to be about 30 feet long , was the largest room . |
| 7 | The slit mechanism between the camera and the artwork , instead of being a few inches long , had to be about six feet ( 1.8m ) long . |