Example sentences of "[noun] or about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 2 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 3 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 4 | One result of this change was that the number of households enumerated was about 300 thousands more under the new definition or about 13 per cent ( Todd and Griffiths , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The mean or average amount was nearly 8 a month or about 0.76 per cent of average earnings . |
| 6 | The empty weight is 925 lbs , fuel capacity is 17 US gallons and the range around 180 miles or about two hours . |
| 7 | 18 ‘ units ’ is in ¾ bottle of spirits OR about 2 bottles of wine OR 9 pints of beer . |