Example sentences of "[was/were] about two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sell working clothes , there were about two shirts and a towel and a pot towel I can get for about fifty P down there |
| 2 | The pair were about two years old and 15 and 20cm respectively in height . |
| 3 | It was about two minutes before 2100 hours . |
| 4 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The blade was about two inches from my left eye . |
| 7 | Second , they can be qualified by relative clauses : ( 26 ) the rudest , which was very rude indeed , is best forgotten now the longest that I have ever seen was about two metres and a half ( 27 ) the fragrant , which comes from Japan , is a splendid choice the triangular which you wanted has been sold |
| 8 | The crater was about two miles across , almost perfectly circular , with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , when I was about two miles from Penzance the engine stopped and would n't start again . |
| 10 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 11 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 12 | It was about two skeletons discovered in a stone coffin in Bath . |
| 13 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 14 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 15 | And er they treated me there I mean I was about two weeks in a room on me own , and taken out then into the main ward for another four weeks . |
| 16 | that was about two weeks ago |
| 17 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 18 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 19 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 20 | MUM found out she had cancer when I was about two years old . |
| 21 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 22 | It was about two years ago when I was about thirteen and |