Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sidings were situated about half a mile away and there was a water-tower nearby . |
| 2 | ‘ In 1974 these totalled about 70 tonnes , at around the same time dentists were using about 30 tonnes per year to fill the nation 's teeth . |
| 3 | At Cotesbach in the same county , about thirty people , from five households , were evicted about 1501 , and the lands affected represented about a fifth of the manor . |
| 4 | Husbands or wives were seen about 36 per cent of the 639 , other relatives about 43 per cent , friends or neighbours about 10 per cent , staff of institutions about 10 per cent and other officials about one per cent . |
| 5 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 6 | At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe . |
| 7 | To each of these there were invited about 200 representatives of the world of industry and commerce , trade unions , teachers ' associations , local education authorities and institutions of higher education . |
| 8 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 9 | At that time we were flying about 4,000 feet about 40 miles off the North African coast . |
| 10 | And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed . |
| 11 | ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’ |
| 12 | The argument was not yet clothed in the garments of modern genetics , which had virtually not yet been invented : the now celebrated experiments of the monk Gregor Mendel ( 1822–84 ) on the sweet peas in his Moravian monastery garden ( 1865 ) passed completely unnoticed until they were rediscovered about 1900 . |
| 13 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 14 | and it were gone about seven or eight weeks and when he heard nowt about it |
| 15 | In the Columbia River area of the western U.S.A. where most of the lavas were erupted about twenty million years ago , such vast amounts of basalt were poured out on to the surface that hills 1,500 metres high were drowned in lava ! |
| 16 | Even better-known are a pair which were erupted about 1,000 years ago in Sisikyou County , California . |
| 17 | John saw the children , who were aged about eight , and decided to take action . |
| 18 | We used to play it when we were aged about ten or eleven . |
| 19 | After 12 months the relevant authorities are still asking for more copies of the plans that were submitted about nine months ago . |
| 20 | Oh yes , we everybody knew of that of the slate we were making , you know cos erm we were making about two thousand duchess a day . |
| 21 | We were finished about five minutes before |
| 22 | A decade later , submarine cable were carrying about 27 million words per annum , their most regular and demanding customer being the governments of the day . |
| 23 | In the area of the Broads , large pits were dug about 500 years ago to obtain peat for fuel . |
| 24 | And you you were earning about ten bob a week then ? |
| 25 | At 6.00pm the cliffs of Dunnose were sighted about two miles off , bearing north by east . |
| 26 | At Sokolnitz the first shots were fired about seven o'clock the bombardment continuing for almost an hour . |
| 27 | A change of government produced a temporary halt , when Labour , who returned in February 1974 , stopped further expansion until after the Annan inquiry , But under the Thatcher Government new franchises were again allocated and by 1988 46 ILR stations were covering about 85 per cent of the UK population . |
| 28 | A 24-hour general strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) in support of 19 per cent pay rises — state and private employers were offering about 9 per cent — mobilized more than 1,000,000 workers and disrupted public transport , flights , hospitals and electricity services on Jan. 25 . |
| 29 | Ministers were outnumbered about three or four to one by officials . |
| 30 | Since hunting was stopped about twenty years ago , the behaviour of the seals has changed dramatically . |