Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that income per member was about the same as in 1893 , the membership at the end of 1895 was about 4,700 . |
| 2 | This was about 8 a.m . |
| 3 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 4 | Of course this was about 1965 , and things have obviously changed , but there has been no kind of ‘ vintage ’ guitar market in Australia — except those bought in from America … |
| 5 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This was about eighteen months ago that she died , ’ Mrs Ridley went on . |
| 7 | This was about nineteen seventeen . |
| 8 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 9 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 10 | This was about forty years ago ! |
| 11 | ‘ I just wondered … you said this was about nine-thirty . |
| 12 | The Cambridge Group for the Study of Population and Social Structure ( CAMPOP ) have shown that in seventy communities where total lists of inhabitants were made at some point between the late sixteenth and the early nineteenth century the proportion of householders who were widowed was about 1:5 ; at Clayworth ( Notts. ) in 1688 it was higher than 1:4 . |
| 13 | Moreover if , as seemed likely , CO 2 was the dominant atmospheric constituent then the greenhouse effect of CO 2 could only maintain such temperatures if the column mass of atmospheric CO 2 was about 10 6 kg/m 2 . |
| 14 | This implies that the disposable income of the republics and provinces in 1985 was about 251 billion dinars . |
| 15 | Gwent social services chairman Graham Dally said last week he felt the current plan to provide a secure unit by 1995 was about seven years too late . |
| 16 | The bulletin said the number of employees in plants in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 was about 45,300 — 1,200 down on the previous year . |
| 17 | Indeed , the average age of new narcotic addicts notified to the Home Office in 1984 was about 26 years . |
| 18 | Having established that the annual prevalence of known opioid use in Wirral during 1984–5 was about 5 per 1,000 of the adult population , the question arises as to how high this level of opioid use is compared to other areas of the UK . |
| 19 | The way marking costs a very small amount indeed our previous was about two thousand pounds and I do n't think it 's worthwhile , this Committee in chasing two thousand pounds throughout the . |
| 20 | Japanese drift-nets in the 1970s were about 15 km ( 10 miles ) in length , but now they may be four times that length . |
| 21 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 22 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |
| 23 | As the two were about three hundred feet from the ground , their parachutes became entangled . |
| 24 | The percentage of households earning more than $50,000 in 1980 was about 80 per cent of the city average . |
| 25 | In a wide band of west Africa , from Dakar to Kano including the ‘ sahelian ’ and ‘ sudanian ’ zones , the total population in 1980 was about 30 million at an average of 17 people per square kilometre . |
| 26 | That was about four years ago ? |
| 27 | That was about eight hours . |
| 28 | That was about five years ago . |
| 29 | It ai n't enough for a bloody round , I said that was about right |
| 30 | ‘ That was about eighteen months ago . |