Example sentences of "stood [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls probably stood to about 5 feet in height with heavy cruck roofs ( formed from trusses built with bent timbers ) on top of them . |
| 2 | Mr Hislop said a fund to raise money from readers stood at about £100,000 . |
| 3 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 4 | The company frequently exceeded its agreed overdraft limit and , in December 1986 , the debt balance on its account stood at about £57,000 . |
| 5 | On Jan. 29 oil prices still stood at about $20 a barrel , compared with OPEC 's target price of $21 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 6 | The population of its large parish , which included several rural outliers , stood at about 2,700 . |