Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other male in sight was about four years old and had n't been potty-trained . |
| 2 | The preferred age of marriage was about 24 or 25 ( average 24.6 ) . |
| 3 | The turnout in the second round of voting was about 40 per cent . |
| 4 | The establishments in India , with their low-salaried staff and their substantial share in the country trade , were self-supporting and profits on trade were about 5 per cent of turnover . |
| 5 | Randles , for example , found that while for observations of UAPs the average number of witnesses per sighting was about 2.6 , this number fell dramatically for abductions to an average of only 1.3 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The average frequency of occurrence was about 3 , and the most frequently repeated name was ‘ microtext exercises ’ which occurred 12 times . |
| 8 | In Mexico City , the acceleration in bedrock was about 4 per cent of the acceleration due to gravity . |
| 9 | His actuarial expectation of life was about 19 years . |