Example sentences of "was about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average attendance was about a hundred and had particular appeal to young women factory workers and those in domestic service . |
| 2 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 3 | He had a healthy respect for his old ally , but as the little dwelling was about a hundred and fifty feet above the beach , he could not really complain . |
| 4 | In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old . |
| 5 | He was about a quarter of an inch long . |
| 6 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 7 | Dorothy was born in 1771 , and was about a year and a half younger than William Wordsworth . |
| 8 | Each chamber , an aisle as they were called , was about a hundred and fifty feet across and anything between five hundred and seven hundred yards long . |
| 9 | They had a male barn owl who was about a year old . |
| 10 | Talbot went to the Admiral 's wine cupboard and prepared a drink while Hawkins gazed at a spot on the deck which was about a thousand miles away . |
| 11 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 12 | Could have done it , too , only when he was about a third of the way through , he was killed in an automobile accident . |
| 13 | When the island was about a hundred metres over my head , they let down a seat on a chain . |
| 14 | He would try to detonate the hatch bolts when he was about a hundred metres above the river . |
| 15 | The nearest target was about a hundred paces away . |
| 16 | So until he was about a year old nobody took him out except me . |
| 17 | And in the afternoon I think er it was about a quarter to three till four , and that was er Sunday School . |
| 18 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 19 | That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him . |
| 20 | It was about a week later and my leathers were still a little ruffled after the grating incident when I saw him sitting all alone in the waiting room . |
| 21 | That was about a year before he commit suicide . |
| 22 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 23 | The house was about a third full and they were respectful if not ecstatic in their reaction . |
| 24 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 25 | This was about a week before the event . |
| 26 | It was about a year before I retired , a wet , windy day in early November . |
| 27 | But erm as far as financial incentive goes , erm it was about a year or so after erm I started there I think when er they introduced it , the erm war bonus , which was a supplement to normal salaries |
| 28 | Yeah Were very particular about lights they I think it was about a hundred feet in the entrance that there were |
| 29 | Oh there was about two dozen boys and a lot of men there , there was about a hundred working in that place then . |
| 30 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |