Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that income per member was about the same as in 1893 , the membership at the end of 1895 was about 4,700 . |
| 2 | Moreover if , as seemed likely , CO 2 was the dominant atmospheric constituent then the greenhouse effect of CO 2 could only maintain such temperatures if the column mass of atmospheric CO 2 was about 10 6 kg/m 2 . |
| 3 | This implies that the disposable income of the republics and provinces in 1985 was about 251 billion dinars . |
| 4 | Gwent social services chairman Graham Dally said last week he felt the current plan to provide a secure unit by 1995 was about seven years too late . |
| 5 | The bulletin said the number of employees in plants in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 was about 45,300 — 1,200 down on the previous year . |
| 6 | Indeed , the average age of new narcotic addicts notified to the Home Office in 1984 was about 26 years . |
| 7 | Having established that the annual prevalence of known opioid use in Wirral during 1984–5 was about 5 per 1,000 of the adult population , the question arises as to how high this level of opioid use is compared to other areas of the UK . |
| 8 | Japanese drift-nets in the 1970s were about 15 km ( 10 miles ) in length , but now they may be four times that length . |
| 9 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 10 | As the two were about three hundred feet from the ground , their parachutes became entangled . |
| 11 | The percentage of households earning more than $50,000 in 1980 was about 80 per cent of the city average . |
| 12 | In a wide band of west Africa , from Dakar to Kano including the ‘ sahelian ’ and ‘ sudanian ’ zones , the total population in 1980 was about 30 million at an average of 17 people per square kilometre . |
| 13 | The average life of a new mortgage entered into in 1988 was about six years . |
| 14 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 15 | ‘ Ideal ’ family size in 1967 was about 2.4 and has only declined marginally since . |