Example sentences of "about fifty [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a tall , thin man of about fifty and he looked like a bloodhound , even to the wet nose , and had a nauseating habit of drooling sentimentally about his wife to anyone who would listen . |
| 2 | He is about fifty and still has a full head of jet black slicked-back hair , Elvis-style . |
| 3 | and he , I 've got all these marks yeah and he goes oh well that 's roughly about seventy percent oh that 's about sixty that 's about fifty and he goes yes well there 's , there 's nothing to worry about , there 's no great alarm bells ringing yet . |
| 4 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 5 | He was about fifty or rather more . |
| 6 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 7 | You see until er er he lived in er you 're on a about fifty or sixty years ago you know yes . |