Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about 8 a.m . |
| 2 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 3 | Of course this was about 1965 , and things have obviously changed , but there has been no kind of ‘ vintage ’ guitar market in Australia — except those bought in from America … |
| 4 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This was about eighteen months ago that she died , ’ Mrs Ridley went on . |
| 6 | This was about nineteen seventeen . |
| 7 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 8 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 9 | This was about forty years ago ! |
| 10 | ‘ I just wondered … you said this was about nine-thirty . |
| 11 | That was about four years ago ? |
| 12 | That was about eight hours . |
| 13 | That was about five years ago . |
| 14 | It ai n't enough for a bloody round , I said that was about right |
| 15 | ‘ That was about eighteen months ago . |
| 16 | That was about fifteen hundred two or three years ago so that 'll be two thousand at least . |
| 17 | That was about six years ago , I heard that , and I 've heard of one person already that I 've personally met . |
| 18 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 19 | that was about two weeks ago |
| 20 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 21 | The sea hitting that was about fifty sixty feet up . |
| 22 | That was about ninety odd pounds . |
| 23 | That was about three weeks in bed , having a toot to kill the pain . |
| 24 | That was about 1907 or ‘ 08 . |
| 25 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 26 | In fact er they subsequently confirmed that the real truth of that was about half about two thousand er six hundred flights using , using Stansted , er , er , at the moment , erm the issue that , that leads us to is whether or not our transport should change er the er level of restrictions that they |
| 27 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |
| 28 | That was about 2 months ago and I have received only one reply , to tell me that they could n't help me . |
| 29 | Grandad had never been hooked , but on this occasion , he grabbed a Blue Zulu , went off like a rocket and soon broke the cast ; that was about ten years ago : the first and last time anyone came near to catching him . |
| 30 | Some of the kids were as young as twelve ; most were about seventeen . |