Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] about three " in BNC.

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1 I was using about three fathoms of line — eighteen feet .
2 And at one stage I think I was carrying about three .
3 You 're babysitting about three are n't you ?
4 And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed .
5 At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe .
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