Example sentences of "died about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The trouble began when grandather Garland died about thirty years ago — in my father 's time — and left almost everything to Edwin .
2 Fedorov is Russian of course , and has lived here ten years or thereabouts ; wife , also Russian , died about two years ago .
3 Al Palanza Jr 's brother died about two weeks before the letter arrived from Greenville County Department of Social Services , he said .
4 Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused .
5 Her husband died about five years ago and she 's put all her emotional energy into her job .
6 ‘ The fact I managed to get away was mainly due to another local man , Mark Powell , of Linthorpe , who died about four years ago . ’
7 Police called to their bungalow in Basingstoke , Hants , think Mrs Elsie Soper , 73 , died about three days before her husband Edward , 81 .
8 And er one old lady , that only recently died about three years ago , at about ninety seven , and she was there when I was a child .
9 Cocks died about 21 October 1726 .
10 This young man died about ten years ago and the railwayman maybe thirty years before .
11 Her husband , the old Baron , as the locals call him , died about ten years later .
12 It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago .
13 On Friday morning she was seized with a bilious vomiting accompanied with spasms and died about 12 o'clock at night . ’
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