Example sentences of "about [num] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until about 1934 the Establishment explanation of these phenomena was remarkably unconvincing and seems to have reflected mainly a desire not to be asked embarrassing questions . |
| 2 | On an ellipse of the proportions of about 2.5:1 the slider on the minor axis would move through the line of the ellipse . |
| 3 | By the time of Mrs Mandelbaum 's party , they were arriving at the rate of about fifty a month … |
| 4 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 5 | In about 1850 the neo-Gothic gate was built . |
| 6 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 7 | A minizyme is about two-thirds the size of a ribozyme and is more stable . |
| 8 | The stout cylinders rose from the decks of Flettner 's amazing rotor ships to about two-thirds the height of the masts on a sailing vessel . |
| 9 | About 1202 the canonist Robert de Courcon cited him as a man ‘ who became immensely rich through lending money to innumerable merchants throughout the world ’ , objecting that in his partnerships he shared the profits but kept the capital safe . |
| 10 | Sinkings by U-boats rose steadily , from around 100 merchant vessels in January 1916 to about 800 a month in the spring of 1917 . |
| 11 | But about 11.30 the siren went . |
| 12 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 13 | About 1780 an eminent surgeon made use of one and by 1783 ‘ umbrellas are also as frequent as shoes and stockings and many umbrella warehouses are opened ’ . |
| 14 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 15 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 16 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 17 | Indeed appeals to the High Court from tribunals number about 100 a year , most of which are tax appeals . |
| 18 | The Home Office informs local forces of its views by advisory circulars of which there are about 100 a year . |
| 19 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 20 | In the early afternoon , Allied reserve divisions and tanks passed through their comrades ' lines and by about 15.10 the ridge in its entirety was securely held and all objectives taken . |
| 21 | He showed that the value of B for short tubes exceeded that for long ones by as much as 15 per cent and that for l/d greater than about 10 the values of B were independent of length . |
| 22 | The number of total hip replacement operations performed in Britain is now starting to stabilise at about 40000 a year . |
| 23 | The German bombers came about six every evening but nobody stayed indoors . |
| 24 | Since its launch in 1988 , sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year . |
| 25 | After being sold to a Leeds scrapyard in about 1920 the crane became derelict until 1988 when it was salvaged and restored by Dorothea Restoration Engineers . |
| 26 | About 1960 a dramatic difference in incidence emerged between residents of Copenhagen and residents of the rest of Denmark . |
| 27 | On this afternoon at about 1700 an estimated sixty bombers approached the island , Hurricanes being scrambled to intercept . |
| 28 | Excluding Saturdays , Sundays and Bank Holidays , that is an average of about 90 every day . |
| 29 | Describing a new screening programme to detect Down 's in the foetus at a London hospital , the British Medical Journal ( 8 October 1988 ) claims that it could ‘ detect 60 per cent of affected pregnancies … and could reduce the number of children born with Down 's syndrome in the United Kingdom from about 900 a year to about 350 a year ’ . |
| 30 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |