Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140m machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140 million PC machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 3 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 4 | Indeed , dog still makes up about 3½ per cent of the diet of Italian wolves . |
| 5 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 6 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 7 | London now trades on about 16 times historic earnings — cheaper than in New York certainly but less so when better earnings forecasts are taken into account . |
| 8 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 9 | However , the fact that HMSO now publishes only about 20% of official publications has seriously undermined the usefulness of the Ford list . |