Example sentences of "[vb base] about [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main concentrations occur at Chichester and Rye Harbour gravel pits , where flocks of up to 400 birds are regular and which , combined , hold about half the county population . |
| 2 | He then helped police recover about half the stolen items . |
| 3 | Use about half the usual quantity of butter or hard margarine on vegetables . |
| 4 | Yet families living in overcrowded conditions in Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets increased from 16,000 to 25,000 between 1984 and 1988 , at which date about half the dwellings in these three boroughs were classified as unsatisfactory ( Docklands Consultative Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Take about half the remaining red fondant ( 100g/4oz ) and roll it to a very thick strip , about 1cm ( ½inch ) deep and wide . |
| 6 | UI says its member companies are now circulating the document among users estimating they have about half the copies in print . |
| 7 | A century ago there were empires whose boundaries were difficult for outside traders to penetrate ; now exporters of communications products and services experience difficulties in entering the domestic markets of such large population nations as China , India , USSR , USA , Indonesia , Japan , and Brazil — nations which together have about half the world 's people . |
| 8 | It costs about 20 to make a tonne of waste derived fuel pellets and these have about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 9 | Proteins , which generally comprise about half the total mass of biomembranes , determine the specific membrane functions . |