Example sentences of "[was/were] about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way back we were about two and a half miles from Fordingbridge when disaster struck . |
| 2 | The pair were about two years old and 15 and 20cm respectively in height . |
| 3 | There were about two hundred and fifty cadets in residence and some of them had never seen cadets from another corps . |
| 4 | Later Joan and I went to your home when you were about two , but I think Roland was working , and you played outside most of the time . |
| 5 | About two , some of them were about two foot some of them were about four |
| 6 | We sell working clothes , there were about two shirts and a towel and a pot towel I can get for about fifty P down there |
| 7 | Think it were about two . |
| 8 | Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I . |
| 9 | The crater was about two miles across , almost perfectly circular , with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim . |
| 10 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 11 | When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people . |
| 12 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 13 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 14 | It was about two skeletons discovered in a stone coffin in Bath . |
| 15 | There were 12 seconds of overtime remaining as Alexander , the only starting Briton on the Monarchs roster , stepped up but his kick was about two feet wide . |
| 16 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 17 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 18 | It was about two or three in the morning . |
| 19 | Then the Sun 's angular diameter was about two thirds of a second of arc greater than it is today . |
| 20 | The blade was about two inches from my left eye . |
| 21 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 22 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 23 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 24 | MUM found out she had cancer when I was about two years old . |
| 25 | It was about two minutes before 2100 hours . |
| 26 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 27 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 28 | No it was about two . |
| 29 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 30 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |