Example sentences of "down [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 2 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 3 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 4 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 5 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 6 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 7 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 8 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 9 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 10 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |