Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey of the first group was fairly uneventful until they were within about sixty miles of the coast at Sirte , when the going became more rocky and uneven . |
| 2 | This indicates that broadly similar juice ascorbate concentrations were found in H pylori positive and negative subjects when plasma vitamin C concentrations were below about 30 µmol/l , but above this threshold H pylori eradicated patients tended to have higher juice concentrations . |
| 3 | They were only about nine to fifteen inch tall do you see . |
| 4 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 5 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 6 | There were only about six spectators . |
| 7 | There were only about 60 watching on the night , so it 's safe to say there was no crowd trouble ! ’ said who organised and captained the CMS side . |
| 8 | I could put it in it were only about ten inches long and I I made it and tapered it erm on a lathe , I put it my ear and side of casing and I could hear all what were going on inside . |
| 9 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 10 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 11 | There were only about 50 participants , which meant you got to know most of them . |
| 12 | Tests comparing the RISC with the VAX using similar C compilers show that on average RISC uses only two-thirds more instructions and RISC programs were only about 50 percent larger even though size optimisation was virtually ignored . |
| 13 | There were only about three bicycles in Carewstown and he recognised this one . |
| 14 | One morning when there were only about three powers cards to deal with , I was visited by Sister Phillips , a senior medical Sister . |
| 15 | As a footnote , when Jack Wannan was posted to Coningsby in 1953 to join 57 Squadron which had re-equipped with Canberras , where were only about three Washingtons left on the Station . |
| 16 | Mind you , there were only about three pole-vaulters in Scotland . ’ |
| 17 | There were only about half a dozen of them , and they could see clearly that they were wizened and wrinkled and , quite plainly , not worth gathering |
| 18 | When he died there were only about half as many pupils in secondary schools as at his accession to the throne . |
| 19 | They 've got a right good offer on at Manor Grove for videos last week , they were er er eight o' clo er they were arriving I think there were only about half a dozen . |
| 20 | They were only about forty miles behind the German lines and were thus much closer to the front line than was usual on their operations . |
| 21 | In 1975 there were only about forty university graduates in the country and the departure of the Portuguese settlers who had monopolized skilled and white-collar jobs left the economy in a state of collapse . |
| 22 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 23 | John Major 's inestimable contribution was to allow people to vote Conservative and still feel they were just about decent human beings . |
| 24 | We cultivated maize and water melons and the crops were just about ripe when the army came one night without warning and destroyed everything . |
| 25 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 26 | She arranged games and activities for the guests , claiming her two jobs were just about identical , except that her kindergarten children were more mature . |
| 27 | Shutt 's goal was exactally what Leeds deserved as Strachan/Mc Allister were just about running midfield . |
| 28 | In a tour of only six weeks , the AHA working party concluded that the short-stay admission facilities of the new DGH units , then just established at the Whittington , Royal Free and University College Hospitals , were just about sufficient for the treatment in the catchment areas for the future . |
| 29 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 30 | It was also said that both masters neglected to wear their gowns , that the gardens were overgrown , and that , though there were still about 150 boys at the School , yet " they were of a lower class than formerly " . |