Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] about a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 2 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 3 | Technical developments in both polyethylene film and paper production have led to material savings of about a third for the same performance , good news environmentally and commercially . |
| 4 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 5 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 6 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 7 | The locals are thinly spread but Pembrokeshire Sea Canoeists , a group of about a dozen of around his own age of 31 , meet up for paddles and he is a member of the board lifesaving club at Whitesands . |
| 8 | And you 'd get a bucket with about a hundred in . |
| 9 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 10 | A much more satisfactory method is to reduce the bushy foliage by about a third with a sharp knife or a pair of scissors . |
| 11 | They require little attention beyond cutting back long canes by about a third in early spring , just as growth begins to stir , and then trimming back any remaining side shoots to no more than three buds , taking out old wood that becomes dark and barky to promote new growth from the base — and , of course , removing the flower trusses as they fade . |