Example sentences of "this was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about 8 a.m . |
| 2 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 3 | Of course this was about 1965 , and things have obviously changed , but there has been no kind of ‘ vintage ’ guitar market in Australia — except those bought in from America … |
| 4 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This was about eighteen months ago that she died , ’ Mrs Ridley went on . |
| 6 | This was about nineteen seventeen . |
| 7 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 8 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 9 | This was about forty years ago ! |
| 10 | ‘ I just wondered … you said this was about nine-thirty . |