Example sentences of "[adj] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infant mortality remained unremittingly high at about 150/1,000 from 1840 until about 1900 , although this apparent stability may have been in part an artefact of the extension of birth registration to the least healthy groups of the population , and of a shift in the social class composition of births . |
| 2 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 4 | ‘ It gets dark at about eight , ’ she says , pulling nervously at her hair . |
| 5 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 6 | A band is clearly visible at about 220 bp in both the ‘ on ’ colony and the ‘ off ’ colony . |
| 7 | The number considered below fully standard remained constant at about 8200 , and the number considered to be fully standard increased from 5500 to 8100 . |
| 8 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |
| 9 | Depending on the rate of gastric secretion , the concentration of sodium ions in gastric juice varies between about 5 and 50 mmol/l , whereas the concentration of sodium ions in bile and duodenal and pancreatic juices remain constant at about 150 mmol/l . |
| 10 | Marsh examined a number of whiskers in the electron microscope and found that , for the substances he was using , the root radii of the growth-steps was roughly constant at about 40 Ångströms . |
| 11 | Between 1851 and 1911 , the number of Edinburgh women listed by the census as milliner/dressmaker remained constant at about 4,500 . |
| 12 | In general , the numbers of widows in the 15–44 age group remained fairly constant at about 200,000 throughout the period , despite steady increases in the total population . |
| 13 | The E. coli count of human faeces is surprisingly constant at about 2 10 cells per gram . |
| 14 | But Ryton , which makes the Peugeot 405 , saw its output remain virtually unchanged at about 88,000 vehicles . |
| 15 | Males go on growing well into their teens , when they start developing the facial adornments of the adult , but they are sexually mature at about ten . |
| 16 | Thus for a polymer with a flexible chain , such as polyisoprene , the thermal energy available at about 300 K is sufficient to cause the chain to change shape many thousands of times in a second . |
| 17 | The relative proportion of silt to clay is remarkably uniform at about six to four ; it is the sand fraction that varies most . |
| 18 | Although the share of state borrowing in total company finance has recently been relatively small at about 10 per cent , in a qualitative sense even a small loan by a state institution carries a seal of approval that enormously enhances the standing of companies with their banks . |
| 19 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 20 | The Jersey population is holding steady at about 103,000 cows in spite of the advance of the black-and-whites . |
| 21 | Although most polls suggest Labour 's support has remained steady at about 40 per cent for much of the campaign , while the Tories have lost ground to the Liberal Democrats , the difference between the two main parties is still within the margin of error . |
| 22 | The Unionist vote remained stable at about 27,000 but the SDLP/Republican Clubs vote fell from 25,500 to just under 23,000 . |
| 23 | He later told her he began to feel unwell at about 8 and at 10 doubled over with what he thought was a stitch . |