Example sentences of "it [was/were] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about five inches long when I bought it a month ago , and now it is approaching 10 inches . |
| 2 | So I measured that , it was about five centimetres . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was too young but it was about five shillings a week |
| 6 | It was about five miles round and must have resembled a spinning top , floating above this anonymous planet . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in but it was about five foot deep . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in , but it was about five feet deep . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had my face done , and oh God , it was about five hundred pounds ! |
| 13 | I think it was about five pounds and a silver tray . |