Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | In 1921 the population of the urban districts was about 195,000 , and of these only 5,000 were Poles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 9 | In the examination in public , evidence showed that the threshold size of a viable site in the inner areas was about 5 acres . |
| 10 | The volume of pancreatic acini isolated from the saline treated rats was about 2.2 ( 0.3 ) ml per pancreas , whereas that from the rats infused with caerulein and injected with platelet activating factor it was significantly ( p<0.05 ) lower and declined to about 0.8 ( 0.1 ) ml and 0.9 ( 0.2 ) ml , respectively . |
| 11 | The longest march for any of the four columns was about ten miles , which the French foot soldiers could have done in four hours … |
| 12 | An Indian pilot who flies regularly to Katmandu said the rate of descent once the plane cleared the mountains was about 2,000 feet a minute instead of the usual 600 feet a minute . |
| 13 | Swords were about thirty inches in length , the blade two-edged and tapering towards a diamond-shaped point . |
| 14 | Classes were about fifty strong but discipline , we are told , was excellent . |
| 15 | The risk at 23 weeks was about 6 per 1000 , indicating that 1 in 165 pregnant women will subsequently deliver a stillborn infant . |
| 16 | Thus , while the proportion of both male and female non-manual workers in full-time employment covered exceeded 90 per cent , the corresponding proportion for male manual workers was about three-quarters and that for female manual workers was less than 60 per cent . |
| 17 | The proportion of women married below age 20 still childless after 20 years was about 2 per cent for women married in 1951 , 3 per cent for women married in 1956 . |
| 18 | Turnout among the 60,000 registered electors was about 80 per cent . |
| 19 | Around 1900 expectation of life at birth for males was about 48 in Britain compared with 45 in Germany and France , 44 in Italy and 40 in Spain . |
| 20 | So in the Spring of thirteen sixty , and they said that this was much more complicated , most of the timbers dated from about fourteen fifty although there was one that dated from twelve eighty nine and clearly was renewed and one of the roof timbers was about fifteen twenty , perhaps a repair . |
| 21 | The production of consumer goods was about one-quarter of normal . |
| 22 | Between 1983 and 1992 , for instance , disaster-payouts were about 12 times as big in real terms as in the 1960s , reckons Munich Re , the world 's biggest reinsurance company . |
| 23 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 24 | The round cheeses were about eight inches in diameter and about two inches thick . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 27 | In 1991 total spending in real terms was about 18 per cent higher than in 1979 . |
| 28 | Whatever the cause and by whatever path the impact is felt , there is no gainsaying the fact that there is a clear differential in levels of infant and early childhood mortality by age of mother at birth of child and that this differential tends , on balance , to favour the children whose mothers were about 20 to 35 years of age at their birth . |
| 29 | Taking the two tests together , the difference between the Scots and the world champions was about 20 points . |
| 30 | ‘ The footprints were about twenty metres from the body , and nobody thought of looking so far away , ’ Mortimer replied . |