Example sentences of "[noun] was about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest village was about five miles away . |
| 2 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 3 | The child was about five years old , fair-haired , immaculately dressed , and seemingly friendly . |
| 4 | When the engines stopped , the Forfarshire was about five kilometres east of St Abbs Head , in Scotland . |
| 5 | The second man was about five foot eleven , again clean shaven but younger . |
| 6 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 7 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |