Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say it was say it was about three , four years since I 've been in there so |
| 2 | Erm as I say it was about ten to five to eleven and Bob said what are you you know what 's Ron doing ? |
| 3 | I think of the vast amount of work I 've got planned for six weeks , makes me wish it was about ten . |
| 4 | And as I understand it they came down from somewhere er near they obviously were involved in the slate business and then they or organized their own firm Brothers and I believe it was about seventeen er eighty nine , maybe earlier . |
| 5 | When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people . |
| 6 | Last time I saw it was about 1976 . |
| 7 | Well I 'd say to price it , I know they 're not quite so expensive on carpet but I 'd say I 'd say about seventeen pounds , but I bet it was about twenty seven or thirty one |
| 8 | I thought it was about fifty thousand . |
| 9 | I say I thought it was about nine pound odd . |
| 10 | I thought it was about ten years . |
| 11 | I thought it was about ten years |
| 12 | I thought it was about half three or something . |
| 13 | I du n no I thought it was about Half seven ? |
| 14 | I should think it was about ten , fifteen years later , and it was so easy to get into the country . |
| 15 | But I mean it was about twenty to thirty guys as I said . |
| 16 | Think it were about two . |
| 17 | and er I think it were about fourteen , fifteen hundred different places . |
| 18 | I think it were about half past seven , and then about an hour after it started . |
| 19 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 20 | I think it was about five pounds and a silver tray . |
| 21 | I think it was about 4.30 . |
| 22 | I think it was about eleven hundred . |
| 23 | Er and I think it was about nineteen sixty two or thereabouts . |
| 24 | I think it was about nineteen seventy two that we went decimal . |
| 25 | And so erm we went up , I think it was about six months after it was introduced , and negotiated an increase on the bonus element . |
| 26 | I think it was about six A M. |
| 27 | I think , I think it was about two hundred and forty pounds |
| 28 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 29 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 30 | I think it was about halfway round the third lap that John Walker made his mark on me . |