Example sentences of "[noun sg] which was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measures ordered by Gheorghe Funar , Mayor of Cluj-Napoca , a town in Transylvania with a population which was about one-quarter Magyar , raised fears of renewed oppression of Romania 's Hungarian minority . |
| 2 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 3 | Up to the eyes in snow , up to the toilet which was about twenty yards away , that was where lived then , in the house where Building Society is now , lived there for thirty four year . |
| 4 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 5 | At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school which was about three or four doors away from our house . |
| 6 | When a BEA Comet blew up in 1967 as the result of an explosive device on board and crashed in the Mediterranean between Rhodes and Cyprus , very little wreckage was recovered from the sea which was about 11 000 feet deep at that point , so the question of salvage did not arise . |