Example sentences of "to about [num] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 2 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 3 | Their numbers seem to have grown from around 5,000 in the early seventeenth century to about 20,000 a century later . |
| 4 | The stout cylinders rose from the decks of Flettner 's amazing rotor ships to about two-thirds the height of the masts on a sailing vessel . |
| 5 | From the 1930s to about 1970 the median interval from marriage to first birth remained 20 months . |
| 6 | The grain tax usually amounted to about one-tenth the value of the rice crop , considerably less than the burden imposed on the Indian peasantry . |
| 7 | Although the number of fatal accidents on farms has fallen to about 60 a year , Carl Boswell , the Health and Safety Executive 's chief agricultural inspector , says it is proving very difficult to cut the tally further . |
| 8 | Describing a new screening programme to detect Down 's in the foetus at a London hospital , the British Medical Journal ( 8 October 1988 ) claims that it could ‘ detect 60 per cent of affected pregnancies … and could reduce the number of children born with Down 's syndrome in the United Kingdom from about 900 a year to about 350 a year ’ . |
| 9 | Sinkings by U-boats rose steadily , from around 100 merchant vessels in January 1916 to about 800 a month in the spring of 1917 . |