Example sentences of "about [num] [noun pl] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These records involve a total of about 120 individuals and the species is now much scarcer than the Slavonian Grebe , although des Forges and Harber recorded approximately equal numbers of each species . |
| 2 | Prior to this , SelecTronics had cut its work force by over 40 per cent to about 70 employees and the corporation 's president , Jim Finke , had resigned . |
| 3 | On Nov. 30 the three-member Truth Commission , formed to investigate human rights violations by the armed forces during the civil war , named 223 military personnel , including about 100 officers and the Minister of Defence and Public Security , Gen. René Emilio Ponce . |
| 4 | The first block is about 100 metres and the second about 500 metres from the main road and a host of restaurants and bars can be found nearby . |
| 5 | The storage capacity is about 230 megabytes or the equivalent of roughly 90,000 A4 pages of textual information . |
| 6 | The six passengers boarded the aircraft at about 1520 hours and the aircraft received clearance from Norwich Tower to taxi out for take-off on Runway 28 . |
| 7 | The reported mean age of patients with an adenocarcinoma associated with Barrett 's oesophagus is about 57 years and the male to female ratio is 5.5:1 . |
| 8 | The submission shall consist of either a dissertation of about 10,000 words or the study of a musical document ( about 5,000 words plus an edition of the document ) . |
| 9 | I was only in court for about fifteen minutes and the judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence . |
| 10 | She said the woman had lived in the house for about nine years and the man for about two . |
| 11 | About twenty minutes and the hurricane would have them in its grasp . |
| 12 | That lasted about 15 minutes and the pain had gone by the time I had got to hospital , ’ he said . |
| 13 | By " childhood " we mean here the years between the age of about two years and the beginning of puberty . |
| 14 | The Regions would take turns in being Primary and Secondary hosts — the primary visit would be for about two weeks and the secondary for about one week . |
| 15 | The wind blew from the South East for about two weeks and the Joanna Thorden , a Norwegian boat , was lost off Stronsay . |
| 16 | ‘ The audience lasted about 20 minutes and the meeting took place in his study in the Vatican . |