Example sentences of "at about [num] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 2 | At about 1150 hrs the pilot called Blackbushe and requested joining instructions . |
| 3 | At about 0230 hours the fishing vessel-cum-yacht Guiding Lights , which had figured on our suspect list since 1974 , but had never been sighted in British waters , sailed into the trap , heaving-to off Talland Bay , about half a mile off shore . |
| 4 | At about 50 atmospheres the carbon dioxide readily dissolves in water thus removing it almost completely from the hydrogen . |
| 5 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 6 | Since the front of a slug travels downstream at about three times the speed of the rear ( Fig. 18.7 ) , there can be substantial variations in the fraction of the flow that is turbulent ( Fig. 18.8 ) and thus in the flow rate . |
| 7 | At about three weeks the kittens start to engage in rough-and-tumble actions with their litter-mates . |