Example sentences of "it [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think it were about two . |
| 2 | Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I . |
| 3 | She rang me , oh it were about nine o'clock last night |
| 4 | and er I think it were about fourteen , fifteen hundred different places . |
| 5 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 6 | Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ? |
| 7 | And er oh it , it were about seven o'clock and I said I 'll go and play with Len ti till half past , he says well be a , be back by half past eight . |
| 8 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 9 | I think it were about half past seven , and then about an hour after it started . |
| 10 | It was about fifteen feet wide and ran strongly . |
| 11 | Aye it was about sixty . |
| 12 | Well I 'd say it was about sixty five thirty five for the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 13 | ‘ I was down here one night , it was about nine , and there was a knock at the door . |
| 14 | I say I thought it was about nine pound odd . |
| 15 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 16 | That 's right , it was about nine . |
| 17 | When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people . |
| 18 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 19 | It was about two skeletons discovered in a stone coffin in Bath . |
| 20 | It was about two or three in the morning . |
| 21 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 22 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 23 | It was about two minutes before 2100 hours . |
| 24 | No it was about two . |
| 25 | In fact it was about two very interesting lines in Portugal and Italy ! |
| 26 | But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so |
| 27 | It was about two thousand years ago and it was how many years before Christ . |
| 28 | er last year was n't too much it was about two and a half thousand . |
| 29 | Mm it was about two and a half , three thousand . |
| 30 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |