Example sentences of "there [was/were] about four " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So I look in this public , I can see it now , stood back at top of Hope Street , and there were two steps and a little snicket — and there were about four in there .
2 The British Crime Survey showed that there were about four times as many crimes committed each year as the police were ever told about .
3 There were about four hundred of these allotments , most of which were immediately ‘ developed ’ by their owners without the slightest reference to neighbouring allotments and owners The pattern of the roads and streets was largely determined by the medieval footpaths and furlongs of the open fields .
4 ‘ At the time I got to him there were about four other people with him just trying to resuscitate him , giving him cardiac massage .
5 but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep
6 There was about four inches of water inside .
7 There was only a few people there , I do n't , busy one , there was about four children there .
8 Well , there was about four of us .
  Next page