Example sentences of "[was/were] about two [conj] " in BNC.

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1 On the way back we were about two and a half miles from Fordingbridge when disaster struck .
2 It was about two or three in the morning .
3 There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him .
4 I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old .
5 It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again .
6 He was about two and a half metres tall ; naked muscular chest and short dark hair .
7 er last year was n't too much it was about two and a half thousand .
8 Mm it was about two and a half , three thousand .
9 I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft
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