Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is what I was supposedly doing in my earliest remembered erotic dream , when I was about five . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 5 | I suppose I was about five years old ; maybe four . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was about five , I think . ’ |
| 7 | Well when I was about five , one morning , my father fixed a cushion over the back bone of the bike . |
| 8 | I was , I did wan na do that when I was about five . |
| 9 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 10 | ONCE WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT five she had been separated from her mother in a department store . |
| 11 | One was about five foot six , clean shaven with dark hair and in his late twenties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We have found all the leaks , there were about five leaks I think , down that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was about five hundred pounds too much . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Aye and last time I seen her 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 | So I measured that , it was about five centimetres . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was too young but it was about five shillings a week |
| 23 | It was about five miles round and must have resembled a spinning top , floating above this anonymous planet . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in but it was about five foot deep . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in , but it was about five feet deep . ’ |
| 26 | So if you think about the massive exodus from the south in the nineteen sixties and seventies erm I ca n't remember the precise figures but in the , at that time er sort of the equivalent of current social security cheque er in er if in , if in New York it was about five hundred dollars a month in Mississippi it was fifty dollars a month . |
| 27 | Er , no , there 's Joanna one of the girls I look after and er Rebecca who lives next door to me , erm some friends of ours years ago were going to , were thinking of buying it , it was about five thousand pounds then , so it shows ya how long ago it is |
| 28 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 29 | I had my face done , and oh God , it was about five hundred pounds ! |
| 30 | I think it was about five pounds and a silver tray . |