Example sentences of "had about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and I had about twelve thousand along there . |
| 2 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
| 3 | Perhaps I missed it , it had about twelve people in it . |
| 4 | Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own . |
| 5 | but I mean if you 'd bought all the extras , last year you had about fifty . |
| 6 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 7 | His Mum had about four flasks she kept on top of the fridge . |
| 8 | I had about four separate answers ready for this one , but they all failed me . |
| 9 | Which meant you come home from your double er shift , went to your bed , had about four hours sleep and were back out for your normal shift again . |
| 10 | I had about four hours to spend looking around Ipswich which was plenty of time as Ipswich is quite a small town . |
| 11 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 12 | Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years . |
| 13 | I mean he had about four or five different shirts there . |
| 14 | I had a beauty I had a run there I had about four in a row which came out whole , but now I 'm getting crushed nuts |
| 15 | By constantly loose feeding loose maggots he was able to keep the fish active in his swim , enabling him to pick them off steadily until he had about 10 lb. 6 oz . |
| 16 | There 's one firm that had about nine buses took off the road try trying to cut corners as well . |
| 17 | Most traders offered extensive lines of credit , without interest , to their friends and kinsmen — a wealthy Kufran , for example , reckoned that he had about 30,000 dinars on loan to his friends at any one time — apart from commercial credit . |
| 18 | By the end of the seventeenth century Norwich had about 30,000 inhabitants , Bristol 20,000 and Exeter , York and Newcastle even less . |
| 19 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 20 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 21 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 22 | Swedish papers had longer words , while the English paper had about five words per sentence more . |
| 23 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 24 | yeah old galley stove , galley oven just like the old fashioned oven it was , so you had your full hearth and used to bake in the oven and of course you cook on the top , and you had about five different rings cos the fire is to put the damper in the chimney to make the heat go round the oven . |
| 25 | I had about five seconds to think ‘ what on earth am I doing ? ’ |
| 26 | The RSPB had about 3,000 members , and everybody knew everybody else . |
| 27 | This was a small farm , with its neighbour carrying about 1,500 cows , and the largest unit in the area had about 3,000 cows . |
| 28 | The emerging Turkish foreign ministry , a case in point , had about 200 salaried officials working in it in the early 1870s , at the end of the Tanzimat period of attempted administrative and legal reform . |
| 29 | This party , which had about 20,000 members at the end of 1990 , has now joined the Democratic Russia movement and abandoned its socialist programme . |
| 30 | The city , which had about 20,000 inhabitants , is irregular to plan and enclosed by stone city walls of double thickness with earth and stones between . |