Example sentences of "[verb] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This agrees with the observation that human marathons are won at about half the speed of 100 m sprints . |
| 2 | The nodules in which the worms live first appear at about two months from infection . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've seen those sods before , they always keep a few Fokkers lurking at about five thousand . |
| 4 | Gearing currently stands at about 75 per cent . |
| 5 | Tanzania 's elephant population stands at about 55,000 , but was more than twice that size before widespread poaching from 19801989 nearly wiped out its herds . |
| 6 | The six three O seven we supply at about nine pounds . |
| 7 | Because of the persistent influence of the mountains , sometimes a ridge in the flow pattern develops at about 15 degrees of longitude upstream . |
| 8 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 9 | Even with a mileage clock that stopped at about 190,000 miles , he still runs to perfection , never gets clamped or a parking ticket , and blends beautifully into the city background . |
| 10 | ‘ The demand for new houses is forecast at about 200,000 a year to the end of the century , ’ says the report . |
| 11 | Between 1870 and 1930 average completed family size decreased from five or six children to three and has now stabilized at about two . |
| 12 | The bed lies at about present high tide level , so that there is no indication of marine action at levels as high as at present . |
| 13 | However 23S rRNA gene starts at about 200 bases downstream from the 3' end of the S.acidocaldarius 16S rRNA gene , and no tRNA gene was found in the spacer region between 16S and 23S sequences . |
| 14 | Although you are here , on the summit , at 9,400 feet , well above the permanent snow line in the Pyrenees , which starts at about 8,500 feet , there is seldom any snow in the summer , because the sides of the mountain are too steep , especially on the north side , to keep it in place . |
| 15 | Should think it starts at about sixteen , seventeen thousand . |
| 16 | The collision occurred at about 9.15 this morning , when there was torrential rain across much of the Cotswolds . |
| 17 | The accident occurred at about 3.30 p.m . |
| 18 | Almost total clearance occurred at about 3500 B.P. The Standing Stones of Callanish are thought to date from 3750 — 3500 B.P. |
| 19 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 20 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 21 | Basaltic rocks melt at about 1,100 degrees C , while granitic rocks melt at only about 650–700 degrees C , so magmas of granitic composition are many times more viscous than basaltic ones . |
| 22 | The next day , after sporadic incidents , violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m . |
| 23 | The ones we c we manage to sell at about fifty , fifty five percent margin . |
| 24 | That may seem anything but recent , but remember that a million years is a relatively insignificant span of time compared with the age of the Earth , at present reckoned at about 4,600 million years . |
| 25 | We know that this can be done at about 12 months of age and in future it is quite possible that farmers will use these measurements in selecting their bulling heifers . ’ |
| 26 | In fact the atoms in diamond can vibrate at about 40 x 10 Hz . |
| 27 | A small Roman settlement is believed to have existed on a spur of land lying between Stamford Brook and Bollo Brook , at which site was discovered a Roman bronze finger ring , also an almost complete , decorated , Samian bowl , dated at about 100 A.D. |
| 28 | Into this zone were later injected the West of England granites , dated at about 280 Ma ( Early Permian ) . |
| 29 | The velocity of conduction varies somewhat ; in the giant axons of Periplaneta it occurs at about 7 metres per second , while in the afferent nerves from the paraprocts of Anax nymphs it is about 2 m -I ( see , for example , Chapman and Pankhurst , 1967 ) . |
| 30 | It has been shown conclusively in the south-east of England that a marked terrace of early Pleistocene age with beach deposits in some localities occurs at about 195 m ( 650 ft ) OD ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1955 ) . |