Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were so incensed that they flew to Los Angeles officially to deny charges that ‘ they only sang about 20 per cent of the music on their 1988 album , Hanging' Tough . |
| 2 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 3 | Those in favour of an executive presidency thus constituted about 40 per cent of the electorate ; to be accepted , the proposal had to be approved by over half of the total electorate . |
| 4 | Michael Green , chairman of media group , Carlton Communications , yesterday sold about 20 per cent of his stake in the company for more than £10.5 million . |
| 5 | Although less significant it still provides about 15 per cent of funds . |
| 6 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 7 | In Finland , which is probably the world 's most northerly agricultural country , there has been a similar fall in dairy-cow numbers to about 607,000 in 1986 and the main milk breed is the Finnish Ayrshire , which now represents about 80 per cent of the national herd , the country 's only other breeds being the Friesian ( 17 per cent ) and the amalgamated Finncattle ( 2 per cent and decreasing ) . |
| 8 | This phenomenon affects all areas of the travel industry : the airlines , most of which had introduced some sort of business class travel by the mid-seventies , now sell about 50 per cent of all scheduled flight tickets to business travellers . |
| 9 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 10 | Farmers in California now use about 85 per cent of the state 's water while city residents face severe rationing after six years of drought . |
| 11 | Medical and pharmaceutical products now represent about 15 per cent of our total rigid packaging sales — a figure which will double by 1995–96 . |
| 12 | According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers . |
| 13 | The November 1989 budget presented to parliament by Finance Minister Paul Pora was unexpectedly expansionist given the closure of the Panguna copper mine or Bougainville which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 14 | The Bougainville conflict [ see above ] affected the country 's economy adversely , as the giant Panguna copper mine , which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and more than 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings , remained closed . |
| 15 | Rover currently exports about 30 per cent of its production , and models like the 200 , 400 and Land Rover Discovery have been particularly well received abroad . |
| 16 | These are , this is the war which essentially brings about German er unity under Prussian erm erm control . |