Example sentences of "it was about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was about fifteen feet wide and ran strongly .
2 Aye it was about sixty .
3 Well I 'd say it was about sixty five thirty five for the Maastricht Treaty .
4 ‘ I was down here one night , it was about nine , and there was a knock at the door .
5 I say I thought it was about nine pound odd .
6 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 .
7 That 's right , it was about nine .
8 When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people .
9 It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again .
10 It was about two skeletons discovered in a stone coffin in Bath .
11 It was about two or three in the morning .
12 It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again .
13 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 .
14 It was about two minutes before 2100 hours .
15 No it was about two .
16 In fact it was about two very interesting lines in Portugal and Italy !
17 But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so
18 It was about two thousand years ago and it was how many years before Christ .
19 er last year was n't too much it was about two and a half thousand .
20 Mm it was about two and a half , three thousand .
21 And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night .
22 I think , I think it was about two hundred and forty pounds
23 and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it .
24 It was about two years ago when I was about thirteen and
25 It was about 11 o clock .
26 It was about 80 per cent pure and you know there 's no rubbish in it .
27 It was about 80 µl.min - 1 .100 cm - 2 after administration of hexamethonium or lidocaine .
28 Er and I think it was about nineteen sixty two or thereabouts .
29 I think it was about nineteen seventy two that we went decimal .
30 It was about nineteen fifty eight .
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