Example sentences of "[was/were] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying around on bales of hay were about a dozen Commandos . |
| 2 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 3 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 4 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 5 | By 1880 there were about a thousand hotels in the scheme which proved a resounding success . |
| 6 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 7 | In all I expect we were about a dozen strong before taking departure for Malta from a point to the South of the Balearics . |
| 8 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 9 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 10 | There were about a thousand people round the fire . |
| 11 | And there was this parish here , Wenhaston , and Westleton which is the next one , there were about a hundred and fifty men went to sea out of these two parishes . |
| 12 | There were about a dozen ‘ ordinary ’ cyclists and a contingent from ‘ Neatwork ’ at Coldstream , who brought a couple of recumbents , a duette ( rickshaw-type wheelchair ) , and a bike with a two-seater kiddy-trailer , fully occupied . |
| 13 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 14 | At one place there were about a dozen young women having a lunch together . |
| 15 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 16 | I think they were about a hundred and fifty to one I 'm standing see if they can win the league . |
| 17 | and they were about a hundred and twenty five |
| 18 | Radio sports reporter Tom Wadrop , a passenger on the plane during yesterday 's drama , said : ‘ We were about an hour into the journey when suddenly the cabin lights came on telling us to return to our seats , fasten seat belts and everyone was ordered to put out cigarettes . |
| 19 | The average attendance was about a hundred and had particular appeal to young women factory workers and those in domestic service . |
| 20 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 21 | He had a healthy respect for his old ally , but as the little dwelling was about a hundred and fifty feet above the beach , he could not really complain . |
| 22 | In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old . |
| 23 | He was about a quarter of an inch long . |
| 24 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 25 | Dorothy was born in 1771 , and was about a year and a half younger than William Wordsworth . |
| 26 | Each chamber , an aisle as they were called , was about a hundred and fifty feet across and anything between five hundred and seven hundred yards long . |
| 27 | They had a male barn owl who was about a year old . |
| 28 | Talbot went to the Admiral 's wine cupboard and prepared a drink while Hawkins gazed at a spot on the deck which was about a thousand miles away . |
| 29 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 30 | Could have done it , too , only when he was about a third of the way through , he was killed in an automobile accident . |