Example sentences of "[vb base] that about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates based on contemporary data suggest that about 90 per cent of the population of the Balkans in the sixteenth century lived in rural areas . |
| 2 | Indications of the likely proportions come from studies in two Dutch towns and in Berlin , which show some 20 per cent of injury-related accidents in built-up areas occurring on typical residential streets , and from OECD members who report that about thirty per cent of urban accidents occur on non-arterial roads . |
| 3 | The polls show that about 70 per cent of American troops do not want to risk the lives of American troops to achieve such goals . |
| 4 | Yet we know that about 60 per cent of families in Latin America are maintained by women . |
| 5 | Programmers Dan and Kathe Spracklen , who have paced the industry Since their Sargon program won the first micro chess tournament in 1978 , believe that about 90 per cent of this progress is due to faster speeds in the evaluation routines , and only 10 per cent because the routines themselves have become more chess-intelligent . |
| 6 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 7 | Nutritionists recommend that about 30 per cent of your daily intake of calories should come from fat , of which not more than a third of those should be saturated ( animal ) fat ; 11 per cent from protein and the rest from carbohydrates . |
| 8 | ( 1982 ) estimate that about 40 per cent of all carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere remains there to enhance the greenhouse effect . |