Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] about [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 .
2 Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’
3 That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago .
4 And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications .
5 But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way .
6 Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it .
7 Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the
8 We ended up with about a dozen assorted gin , whisky and stout bottles .
9 You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things .
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