Example sentences of "[was/were] about fifteen " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 2 | He said there were about fifteen volumes . |
| 3 | By 1918 , when the President retired , there were about fifteen hundred members and twenty-two branches . |
| 4 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 5 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 6 | Actually the best bit was the giant stride in , which was about fifteen feet high . |
| 7 | It was about fifteen feet wide and ran strongly . |
| 8 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 9 | I remember being rather keen on Bert when I was about fifteen . |
| 10 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 11 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 12 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 13 | The Pit was about fifteen by twelve feet . |
| 14 | I was about fifteen . |
| 15 | Aye till I were till I was about fifteen and we we went to live at . |
| 16 | When Marius was about fifteen . |
| 17 | Hereward was about fifteen at the time . ’ |
| 18 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 19 | I started there when I was about fifteen and er erm they used to breed about er six hundred pheasants there you see . |
| 20 | Although I worked all that day , by the evening I realised that all I 'd produced was about fifteen pages of a rather bad Agatha Christie spoof . |
| 21 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
| 22 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 23 | But I received my first one of these from er from Lloyds er Black Knights er services because I was in I was about fifteen miles away . |
| 24 | So in the Spring of thirteen sixty , and they said that this was much more complicated , most of the timbers dated from about fourteen fifty although there was one that dated from twelve eighty nine and clearly was renewed and one of the roof timbers was about fifteen twenty , perhaps a repair . |
| 25 | I know one was called Tom , that was a grey one and the other one was a bay and they was about fifteen hands , that 's what they stood . |
| 26 | That was about fifteen hundred two or three years ago so that 'll be two thousand at least . |
| 27 | Aye , Rob said there was about fifteen accounts out |
| 28 | There was one girl there today , she was about fifteen or seventeen and she had to put her coat on over the top of the gown because it was |
| 29 | I think he was about fifteen . |
| 30 | Last time I went was a last time I went was about fifteen years ago , so I was thirty nine |