Example sentences of "[was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The boundaries may have been short , with netting to protect the club 's offices , but it was worthwhile practice for Smith , and a glimpse of warmer times ahead for a remarkable crowd ; there were about 100 well wrapped-up diehards , one of whom plonked himself in a red deckchair on the outfield , dangerously at midwicket . |
| 32 | It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 34 | Further , under the new Act , LEAs rapidly expanded their own providing roles and Fieldhouse estimates that nationally there were about 5,000 evening institutes in 1947 and by 1950 more than 11,000 existed providing a wide range of social and recreational classes most of which were accommodated through the evening use of school premises . |
| 35 | We had a quick count up and there were about 10 of us . |
| 36 | It was a couple of days later that I was alone in my flat in the evening and there was a knock on the door , I went to the door and opened it and there were about 10 people with an assortment of musical instruments — quite merry on this and that . |
| 37 | They were about 10 yards from the western side of the reef , where it fell away sharply and waves were pounding on its shore . |
| 38 | In the long tirade by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) , there were about 10 debating points and if time permits I shall try to answer them . |
| 39 | The establishments in India , with their low-salaried staff and their substantial share in the country trade , were self-supporting and profits on trade were about 5 per cent of turnover . |
| 40 | Ms Gallacher , 20 , a hairdresser , told the court that there were about 500 people at the party in a warehouse or old school . |
| 41 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 42 | Usually about 20 to 40 birds are involved , but there were about 200 in 1964 . |
| 43 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 44 | Well you could n't go nursing till you were about eighteen or nineteen or something , if not more . |
| 45 | Well they 're not so much children actually they were about eighteen . |
| 46 | They were about 3,500 miles apart and I was visiting each one at least once a month for a year . |
| 47 | In 1979 there were about 3,500 registered SKB cows but today there are about 2,600 controlled cows , only a few hundred of which are really pure ( i.e. with less than 6.25 per cent foreign blood ) ; a rescue programme is under way and there is plenty of banked frozen semen . |
| 48 | There were about 46 pages dealing with deductions from wages and benefits and with prison sentences . |
| 49 | Assuming a proportionally similar take-up on university validated courses , there were about 8,500 students on all Dip.HE courses . |
| 50 | The UK has become the largest fast food market in Europe — by 1990 there were about 1,500 fast food outlets in the UK . |
| 51 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 52 | He said there were about fifteen volumes . |
| 53 | By 1918 , when the President retired , there were about fifteen hundred members and twenty-two branches . |
| 54 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 55 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 56 | They were about nine inches by six inches , some two inches in thickness , with a bold diamond pattern , deeply cut into the hard black face . |
| 57 | When we were about nine and ten and a half we had somebody living in because there were an awful lot of evening meetings that my father had to go to and usually mother went with him . |
| 58 | She rang me , oh it were about nine o'clock last night |
| 59 | and er I think it were about fourteen , fifteen hundred different places . |
| 60 | There were about six of us and we were eager to talk about — for the first time — the reality of our lives as women . |