Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours of work were falling — by 1900 most western European countries were down to about sixty per week for adult men — and social services and welfare legislation were becoming more usual . |
| 2 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 3 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 4 | By now I was down to about 15″ . |
| 5 | When she was down to about thirty centimetres high , she walked through the door , and then , at last , she was in the beautiful garden with its green trees and bright flowers . |
| 6 | I think the , I mean the , the huge drop that we had in situations vacant advertising in ninety , nineteen ninety one , when we fell from , I mean our job advertising was about twenty million pounds in nineteen ninety and was down to about eleven million in ninety one . |
| 7 | So I think he was down for about six months before he left . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a spokesman for Stena Sealink , which carries twice as much as its competitors , P&O and SeaCat , admitted its car traffic was down by about 9pc for the first four months of 1993 , with the total number of passengers also slightly down . |
| 9 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
| 10 | I was up at about ten I suppose . |
| 11 | Yeah I mean it er I was up till about two A M so er |
| 12 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 13 | ‘ Whoever it was could have made a mistake over the night ; I was out at about that time on Saturday night . ’ |