Example sentences of "about [num] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In about 1850 the neo-Gothic gate was built . |
| 5 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 6 | A minizyme is about two-thirds the size of a ribozyme and is more stable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But about 11.30 the siren went . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By about 1950 the miners had removed most of the coal . |
| 16 | When I was about twelve the farm at Pilton was sold , and Uncle Bill had to leave his cottage . |
| 17 | Longer hours and shorter recreation are the norm , with the annual average working hours of a Japanese worker amounting to more than 2 , 100 : by contrast in Britain and the USA the average is 1,800–1,900 hours , with about 1,650 the norm in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Deutschmann , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | The grain tax usually amounted to about one-tenth the value of the rice crop , considerably less than the burden imposed on the Indian peasantry . |
| 19 | D. About 1800 the Boulton and Watt steam engine was available . |
| 20 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 21 | In about 1923 the eldest Marsh girl joined the chorus of one of the variety shows playing at the Palace Theatre and went on tour . |
| 22 | From the 1930s to about 1970 the median interval from marriage to first birth remained 20 months . |
| 23 | About 1180 the British Walter Map told the story of : |
| 24 | At about 16.15 the Scharnhorst succumbed to ceaseless bombardment and sank ; and at 17.45 , having fired all her ammunition and riven by shell bursts , Gneisenau 's captain ordered her to be scuttled . |
| 25 | When turbulence develops at Reynolds numbers above about 104 the region of boundary layer instability is probably an important feature of the transition process . |
| 26 | I gather , however , that about 1982 the Home Office changed its mind . |
| 27 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 28 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 29 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 30 | Oil industry representatives in the US expressed doubts last night about the effectiveness of the measures which , administration officials claim , will add about seven cents to the cost of a US gallon of petrol , which is about five-sixths the volume of the UK gallon . |