Example sentences of "about [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists of a beam of caesium atoms whose hyperfine transition frequency , at about 9.2 gigahertz , is probed by a microwave field using the ‘ Ramsey technique ’ , where the interaction takes place in two spatially separated regions with a field-free region between them . |
| 2 | About 3000 water samples , collected in the Liverpool Bay-Anglesey area as part of the Geochemical Survey Programme , have been analysed for 28 elements . |
| 3 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 4 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 5 | the major potential confounder is this analysis is pH , because pH values of oesophageal fluid are about 1.0 log point lower than pH values of saliva . |
| 6 | How do they get a things about fifty foot tall then ? |
| 7 | Well , about fifty year ago a suit of staple tweed cost £3 10s . |
| 8 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 9 | No the highest she said is about fifty pee . |
| 10 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 11 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 12 | It 's about fifty pound now there somewhere , this is unfair of this Tory government , who by the way does n't agree with women in the front benches . |
| 13 | I can get is that , I have to borrow about , be about fifty pound , summat like |
| 14 | None of the four played any part in the 1719 invasion , and the real centre of British power in the Highlands was Inverness , where Major-General Joseph Wightman was in command of some 130 Highlanders , 120 dragoons and about 850 foot soldiers , including four companies of infantry from Holland . |
| 15 | On Feb. 8 about 500 conscript soldiers from Topraisar on the Black Sea had demonstrated in Victory Square about their living conditions . |
| 16 | Until 12 months ago about 500 air force personnel worked here . |
| 17 | Our overall consumption figure of 22.6mpg P which included testing at Millbrook , about 500 motorway miles and lots of urban motoring — is a reasonable result but nothing more in the light of the identically powerful Volvo 850 's 25.9mpg . |
| 18 | This technique , which derives its name from the Fast , Low angle , single-Shot method , provides images in about 500 ms , fast enough to resolve peristaltic motion . |
| 19 | This emphasis has tended to eclipse developments in analysis of the Middle Pleistocene record , which begins with the Mauer ( Heidelberg ) mandible ( estimated age about 500 kyr ) and ends at about 130 kry , after which time undoubted Neanderthals were present in Europe . |
| 20 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 21 | Averaging the EEG over forty such self-initiated movements , Libet found that there was indeed a time-locked negative shift beginning about 550 msec before the movement . |
| 22 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |
| 23 | Now I M R O asked er we understand for the be the management of that organisation to give accounts for that for the c for the senior company to I M R O prior to its membership about a I think was about eight working days before I M R O approved that membership . |
| 24 | Er it 's about eight year old . |
| 25 | She said that she would travel by the next one and should be at the hotel about eight clock . |
| 26 | The Greenwich Foot Tunnel is a long straight tube , about eight foot high , only seven in places , walls and ceiling tiled in white . |
| 27 | There 's got to be about eight foot wide and er |
| 28 | They 'll still be is just walk straight in , it 's only about eight foot deep so if I 'm going forty odd there int a car bonnet . |
| 29 | The spectre of drought looms over Bangladesh 's northern districts , with farmers and agriculture officials giving warning that thousands of acres of rice paddy in about eight north and western districts — the granary of the country — will be ruined . |
| 30 | In the presence of a growth factor the cells produced by the progenitor cell go through about eight cell divisions before differentiating into oligodendrocytes . |