Example sentences of "only about [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
2 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
3 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
4 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
5 | she was only about two and a half there |