Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] about [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such has been the destruction of the Brazilian rain forests that only about two hundred of the golden lion tamarin survive in the wild . |
| 2 | Taking these and studies commissioned by donors in countries where they are the predominant donor into account , it appears that only about ten African aid recipients have been studied in this way . |
| 3 | It is not a rosy outlook for most of them , though : he estimates that only about three unsought artist have ever been selected for commissions . |
| 4 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 5 | They 've got ten million pensioner and yet about two million of them are , are quite well off |
| 6 | Last year two thousand people in Great Britain needed bone marrow transplants — but only about two hundred of them were matched up with donors . |
| 7 | Krat stated that the men with him comprised " the remnant of the Ukrainian Division , but still about 10,000 strong , " reporting " ( no word of surrender ) " . |
| 8 | But unfortunately , you ca n't use more than about , probably five hundred K. Nearly a thousand K , but probably about five hundred K on its standard memory . |