Example sentences of "[num] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 29 Beauchamp Place , SW3 24 Brook Street , W1 Sale starts January 2 for about three weeks .
2 153 New Bond Street , W1 32 Sloane Street , SW1 Sale starts January 2 for about three weeks .
3 The A174 between Ship Inn Bank , Saltburn and Coach Road , Brotton , will close to through traffic from April 22 for about 10 days for re-surfacing work .
4 They were ( i ) the reduction of the budget deficit from 24 per cent of GDP in 1988 to 10 per cent in 1990 ; ( ii ) cutting inflation to around 7 per cent in 1993 from about 14 per cent in 1989 ; and ( iii ) achieving a current-account balance in 1993 from a deficit equivalent to 6 per cent of GDP in 1988 .
5 The site 's workforce has been cut from 1,600 to about 1,000 over the past three years .
6 If one were writing the history of Western Europe in the period from about 330 to about 700 ad , there would , inevitably , be two major themes .
7 During this period the population of Danzig rose from about 50,000 in the 1830s to about 70,000 by 1860 .
8 Yeah , six for about two quid .
9 It does not appear that there is any large scale production in this country , although there was a seizure in 1991 of about 0.7 kilo apparently made in a saucepan .
10 Callejas , the PN candidate , had been elected on Nov. 26 with about 50 per cent of the vote .
11 The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today .
12 A raft of exceptional items also included an £18 million write-down on the investment in Power Corporation , £18 million of reconstruction and redundancy costs , which saw the workforce whittled down from 30,000 to about 25,000 , and £63 million of further provisions made on land and property assets .
13 The numbers recorded each winter are very variable , ranging since 1947 , for example , from three in the winter of 1960/61 to about 1,670 in the winter of 1962/63 .
14 The 2 per cent incentive comes to an end on 5 April and in the new tax year the national insurance rebate will drop from 5.8 to 4.8 per cent or , grossed up with tax relief , from about 6.5 to about 5.4 per cent .
15 Renberg and Hellberg ( 1982 ) , for example , analysed diatom assemblages in lake sediment cores in south-west Sweden and found that since deglaciation of the area about 12,500 years ago , the pH of the lakes had decreased from about 7 to about 6 due to natural long-term oligotrophication and acidification .
16 If you have a computer … youre half way there … if not you could get a cheap Amiga500 or 600 for about 200 quid .
17 I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise .
18 Christopher Foster and his colleagues estimate that total local expenditure in Great Britain , both current and capital , ‘ increased from about 3 per cent of GNP in 1870 to about 18 per cent in 1975 ’ ( Foster et al .
19 But church membership has plunged from nearly 8,000 in 1984 to about 2,000 .
20 Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished .
21 In practice , we interpret this figure to be from 31 to about 35 or so .
22 The population of Pimhill Hundred , in which Myddle lay , rose by two-thirds between 1563 and 1672 ; Myddle 's population during that period increased from about 270 to about 450 .
23 Turn the creamy custard mixture into a well-buttered pie dish of 3 pt capacity and bake at 350°F ( 180°C ) gas mark 4 for about 25 min until set round the edges but still a little wobbly in the centre .
24 Bake at 375 °F , 190 °C , Gas 5 for about 15 mins .
25 Bake at 375 °s ; F , 190 °s ; C , Gas 5 for about 15 mins , until golden brown .
26 Spoon over the rhubarb and bake at 190C/375F/Gas 5 for about 40 minutes .
27 141 Kings Road , SW3 Concession at Harvey Nichols , SW1 Sale starts January 5 for about three weeks , with many items down 40-50 per cent .
28 6000 , not of a male population in 431 of about 40,000 , could he accommodated on the Pnyx , the open-air meeting-place , and that total was regularly reached in the fourth century , as we know from the very many attested grants of citizenship , for which a quorum of 6000 was required .
29 This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities .
30 After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 .
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