Example sentences of "[was/were] about [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 2 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 3 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 4 | Or s Pit was about the first one I seen w that had the that had baths pit head baths in this corner . |
| 5 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 6 | ‘ I reported the killing as soon as I left them , leaving a man there and asking them to touch nothing ; that was about the ninth hour . |
| 7 | The project was about the Second World War . |
| 8 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 9 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 10 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 11 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 12 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 13 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |