Example sentences of "[was/were] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 2 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 3 | When he checked the effects of the street lights , Dr Rydell found that , averaged out the whole year , there were about five times as many bats in the villages with street lights as in the dark areas of countryside and the one unlit village . |
| 4 | We have found all the leaks , there were about five leaks I think , down that . |
| 5 | They were about five yards apart and he was just deciding they were n't anything to do with him when they both took out pistols . |
| 6 | A Royal Navy spokesman said : ‘ They appear to have gone off course and were about five miles from shore . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 8 | Mr. Bundy , a jobbing gardener , was about five feet in height but built like a tank whilst Mr. Cool , a clerk at Style and Gerrish , the main drapers in Salisbury , was a very quiet man who rose to be head of the firm 's Accounts Department . |
| 9 | I was about five when Dad started taking me with him when he went off to the allotment and I remember how , on a Wednesday evening , we went to Johnny Lampard 's yard in Exeter Street . |
| 10 | This is what I was supposedly doing in my earliest remembered erotic dream , when I was about five . |
| 11 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 12 | The child was about five years old , fair-haired , immaculately dressed , and seemingly friendly . |
| 13 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 14 | We did n't have a record player , but when I was about five , my sister , who 's seven years older than me , was a great Paul Anka fan — he was the great love of her life . |
| 15 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 16 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 17 | That was about five years ago . |
| 18 | It was about five inches long when I bought it a month ago , and now it is approaching 10 inches . |
| 19 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 20 | So I measured that , it was about five centimetres . |
| 21 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 22 | I suppose I was about five years old ; maybe four . |
| 23 | When the engines stopped , the Forfarshire was about five kilometres east of St Abbs Head , in Scotland . |
| 24 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was about five , I think . ’ |
| 26 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 27 | When this truth , which had been apparent from early morning , was finally recognized by Jean-Luc Roussel and Charles was released , it was about five o'clock . |
| 28 | ONCE WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT five she had been separated from her mother in a department store . |
| 29 | There was about five hundred pounds too much . |
| 30 | I was too young but it was about five shillings a week |