Example sentences of "about [num] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 2 | The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period . |
| 3 | BT&D employs about 455 at the Ipswich facility , which houses headquarters , semiconductor fabrication , components manufacturing , research and development , and sales and marketing operations , and 35 in the US and Japan . |
| 4 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 5 | Mortality of the babies of aristocrats fell from about 160 to about 100 at the same time . |
| 6 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 7 | He received a rousing reception from a partisan audience of about 90 at the public meeting held at Hummersknott School . |
| 8 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 9 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 10 | Hereward was about fifteen at the time . ’ |
| 11 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 12 | And she was a mother too — she and Varna had a child — a little girl who was about four at the time . |
| 13 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 14 | The press , about 1,000 at the opening , were not so lucky . |
| 15 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 16 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |