Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [conj] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 2 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 3 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 4 | It was a beautiful day with small cumulus clouds and about thirty miles visibility , and it should have been a great experience , but unfortunately I felt deadly sick all the way and could hardly bear to look out . |
| 5 | Batleys , the Huddersfield-based cash and carry wholesaler , whose controlling family shareholders are considering whether to buy out minority holders after about 17 years on the stock market , has reported a good interim profit . |
| 6 | Totalling more than 1,000 paintings , nearly forty painted objects , eight bronze sculptures and about 600 gouaches , watercolours and papiers collés , the catalogue is an ambitious task which has occupied Sylvester 's scholarship for twenty years . |
| 7 | About 30 per cent of polytechnic/college graduates and about 5 per cent of university graduates are the products of ‘ sandwich ’ courses which include either one ( year ) long placement or several shorter ones ( AGCAS 1989 ) . |
| 8 | It is about 700 feet long on the east and west sides and about 580 feet on the north and south . |
| 9 | These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry . |
| 10 | Close by the canal were two armoured personnel carriers and about eight US military policemen . |
| 11 | Now , virtually all of our poultry products and about half of our milk and red meat come from animals mass-produced in huge factory-like systems . |
| 12 | It is supplemented by some 800 loaves of bread , 400lb of porridge oats , 150 Christmas puddings and about 2,000 mince pies . |
| 13 | POLICE fired a number of baton rounds when about 150 youths threw stones at New Barnsley RUC station in west Belfast last night . |
| 14 | Mr Thomas met with the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Kampuchean Christian Committee which comprises 43 house churches and about 3,000 members throughout the country . |