Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] about 60 " in BNC.

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1 Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy .
2 Yet the males average only about 60 mm in length .
3 Even when complex formulae are used it has proved possible to find two , which give extremely good fits to the natural curve , but provide base levels differing by about 60 m ( almost 200 ft ) for a base level at about 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( Miller , 1939 ) .
4 Imperfect , because the radii differ by about 60 metres .
5 The dissociation times that we observe at 20°C vary between about 60 s ( from T 9 GCA 9 ) and 30 mins ( from several sites in natural DNA fragments ) , each of which is from a GC site .
6 Because of increasing mechanization , higher wages , and higher costs , the agricultural work-force diminished by about 60 per cent in the thirty years from 1946 to 1975 , from almost one million to under 400,000 .
7 Using an Aran weight yarn cast on about 60 stitches .
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