Example sentences of "was about thirty " in BNC.

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1 The entrance to Ramillies Drive was about thirty yards away on the other side of the road .
2 On this album I think the maximum was about thirty .
3 He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon .
4 I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause !
5 She was about thirty years old and very beautiful .
6 English Extract from the Playboy text : It was about thirty years ago that a young Japanese businessman visited the West and was deeply humiliated to learn that ‘ Made in Japan ’ was an international synonym for shoddiness a phrase that produced jokes and laughter .
7 It was n't really big , there was about thirty of us , about a dozen er waggon repairers and er and er a apprentices .
8 He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune .
9 She was about thirty and she had very beautiful eyes .
10 And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far .
11 The saucer was about thirty feet in diameter , with a smart transparent dome on the top .
12 And the next biggest then I think was about thirty six acres or so .
13 so we did like a meal for , I think there was about thirty of them
14 It was about thirty five pound new .
15 Oh , right up until I was about thirty five , thirty eight , forty
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