Example sentences of "[was/were] only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were only about nine to fifteen inch tall do you see . |
| 2 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 3 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 4 | There were only about six spectators . |
| 5 | There were only about 60 watching on the night , so it 's safe to say there was no crowd trouble ! ’ said who organised and captained the CMS side . |
| 6 | I could put it in it were only about ten inches long and I I made it and tapered it erm on a lathe , I put it my ear and side of casing and I could hear all what were going on inside . |
| 7 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 8 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 9 | There were only about 50 participants , which meant you got to know most of them . |
| 10 | Tests comparing the RISC with the VAX using similar C compilers show that on average RISC uses only two-thirds more instructions and RISC programs were only about 50 percent larger even though size optimisation was virtually ignored . |
| 11 | There were only about three bicycles in Carewstown and he recognised this one . |
| 12 | One morning when there were only about three powers cards to deal with , I was visited by Sister Phillips , a senior medical Sister . |
| 13 | As a footnote , when Jack Wannan was posted to Coningsby in 1953 to join 57 Squadron which had re-equipped with Canberras , where were only about three Washingtons left on the Station . |
| 14 | Mind you , there were only about three pole-vaulters in Scotland . ’ |
| 15 | There were only about half a dozen of them , and they could see clearly that they were wizened and wrinkled and , quite plainly , not worth gathering |
| 16 | When he died there were only about half as many pupils in secondary schools as at his accession to the throne . |
| 17 | They 've got a right good offer on at Manor Grove for videos last week , they were er er eight o' clo er they were arriving I think there were only about half a dozen . |
| 18 | They were only about forty miles behind the German lines and were thus much closer to the front line than was usual on their operations . |
| 19 | In 1975 there were only about forty university graduates in the country and the departure of the Portuguese settlers who had monopolized skilled and white-collar jobs left the economy in a state of collapse . |
| 20 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 21 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 22 | Actually who stayed for mass there was only about thirty . |
| 23 | Doyle let the little group of people walk on until it was only about two hundred metres away . |
| 24 | At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away . |
| 25 | Although it was only about two shillings I think it was a lot of money for her you know . |
| 26 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 27 | And er of course he alerted the other two fellows and there were no fighting there was only about two little fire extinguishers on the tower . |
| 28 | she was only about two and a half there |
| 29 | I think it was only about two ninety nine . |
| 30 | But it was only about two shops that showed any signs of life . |