Example sentences of "[ex0] was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 2 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 3 | You see , I think there was about eight folks be used for thrashing roughly , ten folks erm two on the rick , one cutting , one feeding , one one that end . |
| 4 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |
| 5 | There was about fifty percent full the house of Commons was about fifty percent full which I thought was a little worrying . |
| 6 | I think at erm , at the peak time there was about two hundred and twenty six drivers and conductors . |
| 7 | Oh there was about two dozen boys and a lot of men there , there was about a hundred working in that place then . |
| 8 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , Jean said there was about two hund two hundred sitting |
| 10 | Jean said there was about two hundred in or something . |
| 11 | It was n't really big , there was about thirty of us , about a dozen er waggon repairers and er and er a apprentices . |
| 12 | so we did like a meal for , I think there was about thirty of them |
| 13 | Aye , Rob said there was about fifteen accounts out |
| 14 | There was about nine children in the family I think . |
| 15 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 16 | There was about five hundred pounds too much . |
| 17 | There was about twelve or thirteen of us there . |
| 18 | There was about four inches of water inside . |
| 19 | There was only a few people there , I do n't , busy one , there was about four children there . |
| 20 | Well , there was about four of us . |
| 21 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 22 | She says ; There was about 18 inches between the car and the wall , his face was covered in blood and he was severely traumatised . |
| 23 | I mean er you see th I should say there was about six or seven who were keen on , on , on the trade union . |
| 24 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 25 | There was about six to start with . |
| 26 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 27 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 28 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 29 | Yeah there was about three sets in there and they ranged from about seven ninety nine up I think . |
| 30 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |