Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The riding stables were about half an hour 's drive from the college . |
| 2 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 3 | The Jacobite losses were about 40 dead and 90 wounded . |
| 4 | It was a gloomy , drizzly morning , the radio was playing , the roads were quiet and my speed was about 50 miles per hour . |
| 5 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 6 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 7 | In 1922 on average throughout European Russia and Siberia the percentage of peasant households without a plough was about 23 per cent . |
| 8 | At approximately 1302 hours the aircraft was instructed to change to Goose terminal control frequently at which time the aircraft was about 110 nautical miles from Goose Bay . |
| 9 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 10 | The roof was about six foot high , which meant he had to stoop slightly to accommodate his extra two inches of height as he moved along . |
| 11 | The length of the train was around 620ft and the width 8ft 6in , while the weight was about 310 tons . |
| 12 | There were 25 gallons of fuel in each tank and our take-off weight was about 3,440 lbs which left another 360 lbs for more fuel with another passenger and some baggage . |
| 13 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 14 | And er the rent was twenty one shillings at that time which was rather a lot for a council house so we had , had an exchange down to Street in the where the rent was about seven and six which was a big difference . |
| 15 | In October 1988 , a 25 per cent drop in ozone levels was measured by the total ozone monitoring spectrometer ( TOMS ) on board the Nimbus-7 satellite , while in October 1987 and 1990 the depletion was about 55 per cent . |
| 16 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 17 | When Edward was about twenty he had once intercepted the look exchanged by a young married couple . |
| 18 | In the higher liability classes the probability of an affected individual being heterozygous or homozygous for the major allele was about 0.10 . |
| 19 | This latter finding has been point out by some authors , noting that the mean age at the time of the diagnosis of Barrett 's oesophagus was about 55 years , which is the same as the value found in our study . |
| 20 | Within a year Cotter 's union was accepted by the Board of Trade as having more than 3,600 members and within two he was claiming 15,000 , mostly in Liverpool but also in Southampton , though a more likely figure was about 9,000 . |
| 21 | Last year , the figure was about 25 per cent . |
| 22 | In Pomerania the average holding was about 5 hectares ( 13–14 acres ) of very poor soil , and even with Herculean effort on the part of the farmer it was clear that the payment of one sixth of profits made purchase almost impossible . |
| 23 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 24 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 25 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 26 | In 1921 the population of the urban districts was about 195,000 , and of these only 5,000 were Poles . |
| 27 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 28 | This chap , Major , when he heard the order , he got his big staff out — our staffs were about three foot long — and he was going along waving his staff about , and laying into people . |
| 29 | The preferred age of marriage was about 24 or 25 ( average 24.6 ) . |
| 30 | The nearest village was about five miles away . |