Example sentences of "[that] about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |
| 33 | Vrba said that about 30 per cent of the workforce of the enterprises concerned would probably be made redundant after their sell-off . |
| 34 | For the private sector Challis and Bartlett ( 1986 ) observed that about 60 per cent of admissions were the result of a crisis/emergency and again there appeared to be little choice of the actual home . |
| 35 | Another important point is that about 60 per cent of the over-65 population is female and the numerical superiority of females rises with each succeeding age cohort . |
| 36 | Yet we know that about 60 per cent of families in Latin America are maintained by women . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The Stock Exchange estimates that about 6 per cent of adults own shares , with a third of these deriving from the sale of British Telecom ( Guardian , 10 May 1986 ) . |
| 40 | But despite those promises , and despite Portugal 's generosity , a recent public opinion survey showed that about 50 per cent of Macao residents had no confidence in the future under Chinese rule . ’ |
| 41 | Its estimated that about 20 per cent of your total contributions to the average insurance company scheme go towards expenses . |
| 42 | Indirect evidence from the 1911 census suggests that about 20 per cent of married women born in 1831–45 ( and therefore marrying from the mid-1850s onwards ) and over 40 per cent of those born 1861–70 were controlling their fertility ( Matras 1965 ) . |
| 43 | A survey carried out by local health workers showed that about 20 per cent of Faroese children had levels of mercury in excess of the safety limit as set by the International Programme on Chemical Safety . |
| 44 | It is estimated that about 20 per cent of current models would qualify . |