Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1946 , when post-war service began , the TV set sat in the corner for most of the time , as the service lasted for only about four hours a day . |
| 2 | They stress , however , that this is just an overall industry average and that , as market share accounts for only about 14 per cent of the dispersion of ROI among businesses , other factors need to be considered . |
| 3 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 4 | Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth century the majority of garden roses flowered for only about six weeks from the middle of June until the end of July . |
| 6 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 7 | It is for only about two days either side of the time of ovulation that fertilization and conception can take place . |
| 8 | The provision of homes for old people by local authorities is still for only about twenty places per thousand old people in an area , and many of these will be for very old and frail disabled people . |
| 9 | I say this as and one or two others were there for only about 28 hours recently and used sixty units of electricity … ! |
| 10 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 11 | And that is happening currently with people in schools in Oxford , who come to me for Business Studies , for just about one or two weeks tuition , they then go and pass . |
| 12 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |
| 13 | Not only have I used whisky instead of the brandy usually specified in pork and liver pâté recipes , which is a question of only about two , but two important , tablespoons to 1½ lb. of the mixture , but I have resorted also to rum ( white rum is especially useful in the kitchen ) and to gin for the same purpose , and the results have been excellent . |
| 14 | The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall 's porpoise harpoon fishery , fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable , since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year . |
| 15 | Altogether there is a population of only about 190 , who live in a scattered community , largely agricultural . |
| 16 | The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards . |
| 17 | Fair Isle is a cliff-bound island of only about five hundred hectares in extent and lies midway between Orkney and Shetland . |
| 18 | But when all had been settled , it seemed that Phil could expect a sum of only about six thousand pounds . |
| 19 | The adult worm is about 1 millimetre long and consists of only about 1000 body cells and thousands of germ cells . |
| 20 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |
| 21 | They have shown average production rates of only about 2.5 million cu ft/day ( 70 thousand cu m/day ) each . |
| 22 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 23 | Er the County Council 's given us a figure of roughly about twenty five , twenty six thousand . |
| 24 | Yes but you see when you get out of here about seven times between half past six and eight o'clock at night |
| 25 | So if we could get into groups of maybe about four . |
| 26 | You can see that Mars is depleted in H , C and N with respect to the Earth by factors of between about 100 and 1000 . |
| 27 | This relationship gives rise to a dipping planar region of seismic activity , known as a Wadati-Benioff zone , inclined at an angle of between about 20 and 55 . |
| 28 | This young lad about probably about twenty three , twenty four , and he came in with a cigarette and I said excu excuse me but I 'm afraid it 's a no-smoking area . |
| 29 | They will stop , for probably about five seconds maximum , before any one work . |
| 30 | er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working . |