Sentence examples for was about now from inspiring English sources

The phrase "was about now" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to indicate that something was expected to happen at the current time, but it is not commonly used. Example: "I thought the meeting was about now, but it seems to have been delayed."

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Second-guessing the motives of the bioterrorists who engineered the virus, she tries to get at "what it was about now, about us, that made it able to happen?" It's the $10,000 question that underscores most of dystopian literature.

There will, I suspect, have been curious Radio 4 listeners tuning into Evans to discover what the fuss was about, now safely back in the arms of John Humphrys.

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It's about now.

They were about now.

"You know what it's about now?

It's about now and today".

All it is about now is just management".

"Everything Southern Baptists are about now is church planting," he said.

"That's what this league is about now," Malone said.

That is not what we are about now, however.

For this is what our politics is about now.

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