Example sentences of "[adv] about a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seventies the women 's movement exposed the prevalence of violence against women and provided safe passage in the network of refuges which exist in about a hundred cities . |
| 2 | And the graduates initially were only putting in about a hundred and thirty three thousand and they came out as four and a half . |
| 3 | You 've told me that you 're putting in about a hundred million pounds for this initial expansion , is that the limit ? |
| 4 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 5 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 6 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 7 | Yes and er we used to have about two hundred three hundred birds on the for the shooting and then perhaps about a hundred and fifty or so or something like that on the second . |
| 8 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 9 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 10 | Everyone will have to buy one of these machines and erm at the moment we might have to pay perhaps about a hundred pounds , but perhaps later these will become very , very cheap indeed and just will become part of the television set . |
| 11 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 12 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 13 | So after a fortnight , thereabouts , the union had a meeting and decided that everybody in the industry like , which of course there was only about a thousand of us any way , everybody would s would stop until this man could start at work . |
| 14 | Up until the beginning of the 1950s , only about a hundred Rottweilers were registered with the AKC . |
| 15 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | There were only about a hundred Cotswold sheep left and a few bloodlines.It was vital to save the breed that created much of our wealth . |
| 17 | It is never easy finding the perfect partner , but when you have only about a hundred possible mates to choose from the dating game is particularly tricky . |
| 18 | your maximum 's only about a hundred and ten to a hundred and twenty a week . |
| 19 | There are only about a hundred made |
| 20 | Of all the letters sent out each year inquiring , disingenuously , whether ‘ this mark of the Queen 's favour ’ would be acceptable ; only about a dozen get a negative reaction . |
| 21 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 22 | Only about a dozen canoeists , including Richard and Paul , have conquered Sgwd-yr-Eira in the Brecon beacons Paul broke three ribs when the pair achieved the feat in January . |
| 23 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 24 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 25 | We have our debt itself , the gross debt , which came down about a hundred and twenty million and that is all set by a substantially increased cash balance . |
| 26 | There are already about a dozen people with presidential ambitions . |
| 27 | We did if I can give some background we did actually target er twelve thousand , five hundred mailer shots for this meeting this evening I 'm not sure what the people here are representing percentage for that and we also targeted over about a hundred organisations with mailing shots telling people the meetings on this evening . |
| 28 | Er at one time there was just over about a thousand people employed in Brothers . |
| 29 | So you jumped at the chance , but it is , I think th th poverty wage in Europe is it not , not about a hundred and forty , a hundred and forty five pounds ? |
| 30 | It was just about a hundred kilometres to Bad Schwarzendorn , with Paderborn — another town with a British garrison — shortly before it . |