Example sentences of "was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The annual number of borrowings was about 5,000 . |
| 2 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 3 | She was about nineteen , twenty then . |
| 4 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 5 | I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs . |
| 6 | Er and I think it was about nineteen sixty two or thereabouts . |
| 7 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 8 | This was about nineteen seventeen . |
| 9 | Ana de Santis was about nineteen . |
| 10 | Lewis Luther was about nineteen in age years but a lot older in street-time . |
| 11 | I think it was about nineteen seventy two that we went decimal . |
| 12 | So that was er that was how and I was in I was I was at Well I think I was about nineteen er eighteen or nineteen at the time you know . |
| 13 | It was about nineteen fifty eight . |
| 14 | Allosaurus was about 11 metres long and could walk at 5 mph ( 8 kph ) , double the speed of the giant herbivores , who could retreat into deep water . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've collected records since I was about 11 ’ , he says , confessing to an early case of the vinyl addiction that is a prerequisite for any DJ worth his or her Technics . |
| 16 | Mary was born in the Netherlands and has been fascinated by heraldry since she was about 11 . |
| 17 | ‘ It was about 11 o clock . |
| 18 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 19 | When a BEA Comet blew up in 1967 as the result of an explosive device on board and crashed in the Mediterranean between Rhodes and Cyprus , very little wreckage was recovered from the sea which was about 11 000 feet deep at that point , so the question of salvage did not arise . |
| 20 | was about 4 weeks old when phoned me . |
| 21 | In Mexico City , the acceleration in bedrock was about 4 per cent of the acceleration due to gravity . |
| 22 | Louisa was about 46 when she began to be troubled by unsightly red blotches on her face . |
| 23 | ‘ Ideal ’ family size in 1967 was about 2.4 and has only declined marginally since . |
| 24 | It was about two-thirty , however , when she had need to go for a file which Jimmy would , had he been there , have fetched for her in no time . |
| 25 | When I was about II , my mother bashfully confided to me that " babies came out of their mummies ' tummies " ! |
| 26 | He said the youngster , whose mother was about 32 , was ‘ only alone for about a day . |
| 27 | By the 1780s , when the population of Manchester township was about 40,000 , observers were already commenting upon the growing gulf between a small group of self-made , wealthy factory owners and the mass of the labouring poor . |
| 28 | In 1934 the population of the entire Free City area was about 400,000 and of these 50,000 were Polish or Kaszubian . |
| 29 | Britain and France were at war and in 1794 , or thereabouts , when he was about 17 , William 's ship was captured by the enemy and he was imprisoned in France . |
| 30 | ‘ Although I was interested in music , I did n't bother playing until I was about 17 . |