Example sentences of "by [adv] about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the price of ‘ average ’ properties , those on which the Halifax has lent mortgages , has risen by only about 85 per cent . |
| 2 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 3 | Doubling rail traffic would cut carbon dioxide emissions by only about 3 per cent . |
| 4 | In the hundred years before 1851 rural population grew by only about 0.5 per cent per annum , compared with almost 2 per cent in the towns ( Law 1967 ) , despite the heavier urban mortality . |
| 5 | The use of low-sulphur coal reduces sulphur output by only about 50 per cent , compared with the 90 per cent removal that can be achieved with FGD . |
| 6 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |