Example sentences of "[was/were] about thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 2 | Swords were about thirty inches in length , the blade two-edged and tapering towards a diamond-shaped point . |
| 3 | We were about thirty yards from the crossing and travelling at about fifteen miles an hour when a middle-aged man stepped off the pavement into the road . |
| 4 | It was natural for the Girls to go out with men but Tiller was possessive and seemed to expect them to remain single until they were about thirty years of age , then quietly fade away . |
| 5 | But at the front of the place , near the stage , there were about thirty kids in ripped black clothes . |
| 6 | I think that there were about thirty ships in the convoy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were about thirty Black or non-English-speaking women , out of a population of about three hundred . |
| 9 | There were about thirty men and they had two prisoners . |
| 10 | There were about thirty coins arranged in layers on cardboard trays ; each tray was encased in a plastic wallet . |
| 11 | There were about thirty shops within sprinting distance . |
| 12 | Erm anyway , he said er oh he said they were about thirty two thirty two K those . |
| 13 | It was bigger than this and they , they were about thirty , thirty five . |
| 14 | The entrance to Ramillies Drive was about thirty yards away on the other side of the road . |
| 15 | On this album I think the maximum was about thirty . |
| 16 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 17 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 18 | She was about thirty years old and very beautiful . |
| 19 | English Extract from the Playboy text : It was about thirty years ago that a young Japanese businessman visited the West and was deeply humiliated to learn that ‘ Made in Japan ’ was an international synonym for shoddiness a phrase that produced jokes and laughter . |
| 20 | It was n't really big , there was about thirty of us , about a dozen er waggon repairers and er and er a apprentices . |
| 21 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 22 | She was about thirty and she had very beautiful eyes . |
| 23 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 24 | The saucer was about thirty feet in diameter , with a smart transparent dome on the top . |
| 25 | And the next biggest then I think was about thirty six acres or so . |
| 26 | so we did like a meal for , I think there was about thirty of them |
| 27 | It was about thirty five pound new . |
| 28 | Oh , right up until I was about thirty five , thirty eight , forty |