Example sentences of "about [num] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time of Mrs Mandelbaum 's party , they were arriving at the rate of about fifty a month … |
| 2 | Sinkings by U-boats rose steadily , from around 100 merchant vessels in January 1916 to about 800 a month in the spring of 1917 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed appeals to the High Court from tribunals number about 100 a year , most of which are tax appeals . |
| 7 | The Home Office informs local forces of its views by advisory circulars of which there are about 100 a year . |
| 8 | The number of total hip replacement operations performed in Britain is now starting to stabilise at about 40000 a year . |
| 9 | Since its launch in 1988 , sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year . |
| 10 | About 1960 a dramatic difference in incidence emerged between residents of Copenhagen and residents of the rest of Denmark . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |
| 13 | The Diasopan I think is still , are you about three a day ? |
| 14 | ‘ The demand for new houses is forecast at about 200,000 a year to the end of the century , ’ says the report . |
| 15 | Their numbers seem to have grown from around 5,000 in the early seventeenth century to about 20,000 a century later . |
| 16 | About 1950 a small breeding population re-established itself in central Sussex and breeding has been regular since , although little increase has occurred . |
| 17 | When the bat hunts , it emits a string of pulses at a rate of about ten a second . |
| 18 | Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month . |
| 19 | Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer . |
| 20 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 21 | About five a day . |
| 22 | About 1970 a number of young adult women were found to have a rare cancer of the vagina : the appearance of several cases close together prompted enquiry about possible causes . |
| 23 | Although the number of fatal accidents on farms has fallen to about 60 a year , Carl Boswell , the Health and Safety Executive 's chief agricultural inspector , says it is proving very difficult to cut the tally further . |
| 24 | Yeah , about twenty a day she smokes . |
| 25 | About 1868 a new school was built but this has now been replaced by a modern and forward thinking school for five to eleven year olds . |
| 26 | We only pay about 3.00 a week but we get a lot of food , and an electricity bill , and H.P. on certain things like the fridge and the telly . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | about four a week four a day Mm |
| 29 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 30 | I used them , about 14 a day , for a week and I managed to stay off for about a month . |