Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The crater was about two miles across , almost perfectly circular , with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim . |
| 5 | The pair were about two years old and 15 and 20cm respectively in height . |
| 6 | The blade was about two inches from my left eye . |
| 7 | Like all filmstars Lorne was about two foot nine ( something to do with the condensed , the concentrated presence ) , but the old prong was in good nick , you had to admit , with that tan-and-silver sheen of the all-American robot-kings . |
| 8 | The story was about two rival South London gangs building soapbox cars to enter for a race . |
| 9 | Then the Sun 's angular diameter was about two thirds of a second of arc greater than it is today . |