Example sentences of "that [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was about four years ago ? |
| 2 | That was about eight hours . |
| 3 | That was about five years ago . |
| 4 | It ai n't enough for a bloody round , I said that was about right |
| 5 | ‘ That was about eighteen months ago . |
| 6 | That was about fifteen hundred two or three years ago so that 'll be two thousand at least . |
| 7 | That was about six years ago , I heard that , and I 've heard of one person already that I 've personally met . |
| 8 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 9 | that was about two weeks ago |
| 10 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 11 | The sea hitting that was about fifty sixty feet up . |
| 12 | That was about ninety odd pounds . |
| 13 | That was about three weeks in bed , having a toot to kill the pain . |
| 14 | That was about 1907 or ‘ 08 . |
| 15 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 16 | In fact er they subsequently confirmed that the real truth of that was about half about two thousand er six hundred flights using , using Stansted , er , er , at the moment , erm the issue that , that leads us to is whether or not our transport should change er the er level of restrictions that they |
| 17 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |
| 18 | That was about 2 months ago and I have received only one reply , to tell me that they could n't help me . |
| 19 | Grandad had never been hooked , but on this occasion , he grabbed a Blue Zulu , went off like a rocket and soon broke the cast ; that was about ten years ago : the first and last time anyone came near to catching him . |