Example sentences of "[was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We reckon that there were about 14,500 Derry supporters at the semi-final and of course a lot more people want to see the final , ’ points out Patsy , ‘ However , we only receive 2,000 stand and 7,000 terrace tickets so you can see the extent of the problem we face . ’ |
| 2 | We were about half-way through the second audition when the door opened and Karen Parsons walked in . |
| 3 | According to the study , by the end of 1989 , there were about 12,000 IMTs in use worldwide , mainly in the USA and Europe , and projected growth rates suggested that their numbers will at least double every two years through the 1990s . |
| 4 | In 1971 there were about 570,000 lone parents in Great Britain , in 1976 about 750,000 , in 1986 about 1,010,000 and in 1989 about 1,150,000 ( Haskey , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 6 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 7 | Classes were about fifty strong but discipline , we are told , was excellent . |
| 8 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 9 | Well I bought , I bought three custards the other day and I think they were about fifty three pence . |
| 10 | and then he 's , he 's fucking started marching us around the parade square and and we ca n't see a fucking thing inside there , and he said er come out a minute , so I 've blinking gone out and I 've noticed were about fifty yards from the beach |
| 11 | The number of part-time staff has grown in proportion so that in 1978 there were about 140,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education employed by local authorities . |
| 12 | There were about eight US citizens in our group . |
| 13 | The round cheeses were about eight inches in diameter and about two inches thick . |
| 14 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 15 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 16 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 17 | Swords were about thirty inches in length , the blade two-edged and tapering towards a diamond-shaped point . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But at the front of the place , near the stage , there were about thirty kids in ripped black clothes . |
| 21 | I think that there were about thirty ships in the convoy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There were about thirty Black or non-English-speaking women , out of a population of about three hundred . |
| 24 | There were about thirty men and they had two prisoners . |
| 25 | There were about thirty coins arranged in layers on cardboard trays ; each tray was encased in a plastic wallet . |
| 26 | There were about thirty shops within sprinting distance . |
| 27 | Erm anyway , he said er oh he said they were about thirty two thirty two K those . |
| 28 | It was bigger than this and they , they were about thirty , thirty five . |
| 29 | The Vatican estimated that there were about 2,800,000 Latin and Eastern Rites Catholics in Romania . |
| 30 | There were about 100 of them on Sunday 's evening flight from Bucharest to Tel Aviv , unmistakably Soviet with their fur hats , cheap wintry clothes and suitcases and quiet , mechanical submission to the first taste of Israeli bureaucracy . |