Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 2 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 3 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 4 | When Edward was about twenty he had once intercepted the look exchanged by a young married couple . |
| 5 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 6 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 7 | When Marius was about fifteen . |
| 8 | The area of the city which was dug by Wheeler was about nine times as large and his report , if published today , would , on the basis of Frere 's , have included over 11,000 vessels , instead of the 183 which appeared . |
| 9 | ‘ We signed up for treatment with him when Aisling was about three and made ten trips to Geneva . |
| 10 | Harold was about eight or nine and he was always playing and running about in that meadow yonder . ’ |
| 11 | Donald was about forty-five , with short hairless arms and a belly that looked hard . |
| 12 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 13 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 14 | When Adam was about eight his father had told him masturbating gave you scurvy . |
| 15 | Untill the 1950s , average life expectancy in Greenland was about 35 years . |
| 16 | Kewal Patel was about thirty-five . |
| 17 | His boy Jacob was bald and toothless , and young Billy was about forty . |
| 18 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 19 | When the engines stopped , the Forfarshire was about five kilometres east of St Abbs Head , in Scotland . |
| 20 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 21 | Hereward was about fifteen at the time . ’ |
| 22 | 1 In 1870 the average pH of rural rain in Britain was about 5.0. ( pH is a logarithmic measure of hydrogen ion acidity : below 7 is acid , above 7 is alkaline . |
| 23 | Ana de Santis was about nineteen . |
| 24 | From the Bab el Khalk to the Bab es Zuweyla was about half a mile . |
| 25 | Okay just before we go off Peter 's erm the first comment you made Peter was about ten K Gs of |
| 26 | This country is hungry for consumer goods just as Europe was about 1946 . ’ |
| 27 | But then when Sean was about fourteen months I could n't take any more and I 'd just do it my way , and I 'm glad I did . |
| 28 | In these conditions , the doubling time of Raji was about 17 hrs , whereas RJ2.2.5 doubled every 48 hrs . |
| 29 | His last appearance in Darlington was about three years ago , and since then this quintet has been formed with Jez Hall on tenor sax , Nikki Iles on piano , Gary Culshaw electric bass and Tony Faulkner drums . |
| 30 | ‘ Measure for Measure ’ was written when Shakespeare was about 40 , and already famous and prosperous . |