Example sentences of "[was/were] about nine " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were about nine inches by six inches , some two inches in thickness , with a bold diamond pattern , deeply cut into the hard black face . |
| 2 | When we were about nine and ten and a half we had somebody living in because there were an awful lot of evening meetings that my father had to go to and usually mother went with him . |
| 3 | She rang me , oh it were about nine o'clock last night |
| 4 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
| 5 | One of my school reports , when I was about nine , said of my history attainment , ‘ Molly writes a good story which is not always history . ’ |
| 6 | We had no radio until I was about nine years old . |
| 7 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |
| 8 | At that time the flying life of a rear gunner on heavies was about nine hours . |
| 9 | ‘ I was down here one night , it was about nine , and there was a knock at the door . |
| 10 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 11 | There was one little girl there called Isobel , who must be twenty-something now , but she was about nine then , and a right handful . |
| 12 | The area of the city which was dug by Wheeler was about nine times as large and his report , if published today , would , on the basis of Frere 's , have included over 11,000 vessels , instead of the 183 which appeared . |
| 13 | When I was about nine I grew positively hungry for poetry . |
| 14 | " It was in the mid-50s and I was about nine or ten years old . |
| 15 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 16 | My master had a daughter who was about nine years old . |
| 17 | When it was positioned between her open legs , the tip of the dildo was about nine inches below her labia . |
| 18 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |
| 19 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 20 | I say I thought it was about nine pound odd . |
| 21 | With them was always Maria , a mongol girl who was about nine but looked older because of her stout figure , short , thick neck and large head . |
| 22 | He was educated in France , the family having moved to the Bouches-du-Rhône when he was about nine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She was about nine years old , with shoulder length black hair and wearing a pale nightdress . |
| 25 | When I was , I used to go in the slaughterhouse with him when I was about nine yeah . |
| 26 | There was about nine children in the family I think . |
| 27 | That 's right , it was about nine . |