Example sentences of "which [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to hack it forward just to the angle of the fairway , and had still not reached his opponents ' drives which were about thirty yards ahead . |
| 2 | I got me 2,000 and averaged 55 , which were about 20 more than anyone else . |
| 3 | On the broad canals of Yorkshire the locks were built to accommodate the sailing keels which were about 60 feet long and 14 feet wide . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Actually the best bit was the giant stride in , which was about fifteen feet high . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Peter was responsible about fulfilling his obligations regarding contracts and so on , which was about six weeks , and that was it . |
| 8 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 9 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 10 | He caught over a stone of roach , which was about 200 per cent more than any normal angler would have managed . |
| 11 | for twelve hours , which was about two hundred and thirty quid |
| 12 | The author of No Moon Tonight ( which was about 103 Sqn at Elsham Wolds ) has just produced another most interesting book . |
| 13 | He stood on the edge of the rectangular basin , which was about ten feet deep , its bottom littered with debris of every description . |
| 14 | Dusting his hands , Peter stood with one foot on the parapet of the wall , which was about ten inches wide , made of long flat slabs of stone . |
| 15 | The car , which was about 20 yards down the road , suddenly stopped ; I watched , puzzled . |
| 16 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 17 | At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school which was about three or four doors away from our house . |
| 18 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 19 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 22 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Considerable remains survive of the great city walls begun by Theodosius in A.D. 413 and , particularly notable is the fourth century aqueduct built under the Emperor Valens which was about 3500 feet long ; about three quarters of this remains . |