Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about 100 of them on Sunday 's evening flight from Bucharest to Tel Aviv , unmistakably Soviet with their fur hats , cheap wintry clothes and suitcases and quiet , mechanical submission to the first taste of Israeli bureaucracy . |
| 2 | The boundaries may have been short , with netting to protect the club 's offices , but it was worthwhile practice for Smith , and a glimpse of warmer times ahead for a remarkable crowd ; there were about 100 well wrapped-up diehards , one of whom plonked himself in a red deckchair on the outfield , dangerously at midwicket . |
| 3 | According to the study , by the end of 1989 , there were about 12,000 IMTs in use worldwide , mainly in the USA and Europe , and projected growth rates suggested that their numbers will at least double every two years through the 1990s . |
| 4 | Ms Gallacher , 20 , a hairdresser , told the court that there were about 500 people at the party in a warehouse or old school . |
| 5 | ‘ We reckon that there were about 14,500 Derry supporters at the semi-final and of course a lot more people want to see the final , ’ points out Patsy , ‘ However , we only receive 2,000 stand and 7,000 terrace tickets so you can see the extent of the problem we face . ’ |
| 6 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 7 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 8 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 9 | When he checked the effects of the street lights , Dr Rydell found that , averaged out the whole year , there were about five times as many bats in the villages with street lights as in the dark areas of countryside and the one unlit village . |
| 10 | We have found all the leaks , there were about five leaks I think , down that . |
| 11 | So I look in this public , I can see it now , stood back at top of Hope Street , and there were two steps and a little snicket — and there were about four in there . |
| 12 | The British Crime Survey showed that there were about four times as many crimes committed each year as the police were ever told about . |
| 13 | There were about four hundred of these allotments , most of which were immediately ‘ developed ’ by their owners without the slightest reference to neighbouring allotments and owners The pattern of the roads and streets was largely determined by the medieval footpaths and furlongs of the open fields . |
| 14 | ‘ At the time I got to him there were about four other people with him just trying to resuscitate him , giving him cardiac massage . |
| 15 | but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep |
| 16 | [ At the end of 1992 , there were about xx , xxx BP service stations worldwide . |
| 17 | There were about two hundred and fifty cadets in residence and some of them had never seen cadets from another corps . |
| 18 | We sell working clothes , there were about two shirts and a towel and a pot towel I can get for about fifty P down there |
| 19 | There were about eight US citizens in our group . |
| 20 | The Vatican estimated that there were about 2,800,000 Latin and Eastern Rites Catholics in Romania . |
| 21 | It received only about 3,000 returned forms , although there were about 6,000 votes because I understand that there were two votes on each one . |
| 22 | There were about six of us and we were eager to talk about — for the first time — the reality of our lives as women . |
| 23 | In the doorway there were about six or seven young student doctors all in their white coats smiling at me , and the nurses were milling around and talking . |
| 24 | Forty years ago there were about six inmates for each officer . |
| 25 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 26 | There were about six hundred turned up . |
| 27 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 28 | By 1937 , as a result of migration from rural Kaszubia , an influx of unemployed people from nearby Elbing and Marienburg , and the large number of Jews in transit through the city who had become trapped there after a change in US immigration policy , there were about 17,000 Poles — including Kaszubians , Danzig Poles , Polish immigrants and Polish Jews — living in the urban districts . |
| 29 | There were about 45 rotary steam corn mills built before 1800 . |
| 30 | The UK has become the largest fast food market in Europe — by 1990 there were about 1,500 fast food outlets in the UK . |