Example sentences of "[was/were] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memorandum turned up when they were about three folders into the search ; North , as it happened , had not arrived yet . |
| 2 | I expect we were about three miles out to sea by now , though I could not smell any salt , hear any gulls or see any boats . |
| 3 | This chap , Major , when he heard the order , he got his big staff out — our staffs were about three foot long — and he was going along waving his staff about , and laying into people . |
| 4 | Businessman Paul Jarvis , who heard last night 's blasts , said : ‘ There were about three huge bangs , I have never heard anything like it . |
| 5 | Once they were about three , and talking properly , I started to like them , and now they are nine and five respectively I like them very much , though I notice their fascination with me seems to be dwindling . |
| 6 | I think there were about three Black officers . |
| 7 | Within , tied together with a red ribbon , were about three dozen etched and painted wooden sticks of varying length , the longest being the size of a grown man 's finger , the shortest the size of a child 's . |
| 8 | And we never used to we were about three times home in that er five years time . |
| 9 | As the two were about three hundred feet from the ground , their parachutes became entangled . |
| 10 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 11 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 12 | and there were about three of them and I know they had shafts and me mother used to say keep away from those shafts |
| 13 | Yes , there were about three different people wanted company suggestion about that . |
| 14 | Yeah but there were about three |
| 15 | He does remember , puckishly , an incident when he was about three years of age . |
| 16 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 17 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 18 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 19 | It was the sort of relationship I had with my earliest girl-love , the tomboy Isa , when I was about three or four years old , described in The Only Child . |
| 20 | The boy Paul , as she had called him , was about three or four years of age , crinkle haired but almost white . |
| 21 | New projections from the gradually deteriorating health of these survivors showed that the risk of fatal cancer resulting from exposure to radiation was about three times what had previously been thought . |
| 22 | Our local pub , the Wallace Arms , run by Ted and Brenda Roper , was about three miles from Haltwhistle , close to Fetherstone Castle ; a fine , red sandstone structure overlooking the South Tyne and still occupied . |
| 23 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 24 | They said it was about three houses up on Pukea . |
| 25 | At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school which was about three or four doors away from our house . |
| 26 | I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel . |
| 27 | It was made of cloth , and , as printed on the cover , was about three millimetres long . |
| 28 | The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids . |
| 29 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 30 | I was about three then , but I 've got a new one now . |