Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a gloomy , drizzly morning , the radio was playing , the roads were quiet and my speed was about 50 miles per hour . |
| 2 | In 1922 on average throughout European Russia and Siberia the percentage of peasant households without a plough was about 23 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The length of the train was around 620ft and the width 8ft 6in , while the weight was about 310 tons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the higher liability classes the probability of an affected individual being heterozygous or homozygous for the major allele was about 0.10 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Last year , the figure was about 25 per cent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The preferred age of marriage was about 24 or 25 ( average 24.6 ) . |
| 16 | The nearest village was about five miles away . |
| 17 | The tensile stress developed in this test was about 25,000 p.s.i . |
| 18 | The first hut was about 3 hours ’ tramp from the road-end through a bush-lined valley . |
| 19 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 20 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 21 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The boy was about twelve years of age and a little impudent in his attitude . |
| 23 | The boy was about fourteen years old and had the long , fuzzy hair of the Dervish . |
| 24 | Erlich thought the boy was about eleven , could have been younger . |
| 25 | At a guess the bundle was about six inches deep . |
| 26 | Hall was about thirty-five , dressed immaculately in a charcoal-grey Armani suit . |
| 27 | Well yeah , that 's right , yes I thought this girl was about seventeen , she had a mini skirt on |
| 28 | The little girl was about four , a pretty child with curly fair hair and chubby cheeks . |
| 29 | The child was about five years old , fair-haired , immaculately dressed , and seemingly friendly . |
| 30 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |