Example sentences of "be from about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those convictions were from about 5 years ago , he has n't been in trouble since . |
| 2 | The range is from about 2.4 to 2.9 . |
| 3 | The range of values normally found for σ is from about 1.5 to 2.5 as shown in table 10.1 . |
| 4 | Educated in Lancaster , Baxendale was from about 1805 in London with a wholesale linen-draper , agent for Bannister Hall , calico-printers of Preston , of which he became a partner in 1809 with Charles Swainson , his cousin through the Salisburys , borrowing his £4,000 entry capital from his family . |
| 5 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |