Example sentences of "for about [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 2 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 3 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 4 | An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide is responsible for about half the total warming . |
| 5 | During this period a regular wintering flock established itself at Chichester gravel pits , which reached a peak of 43 birds in December 1969 and accounted for about half the records for each winter . |
| 6 | His deficit-reduction plans would offset this , but the impact is mitigated by his taking a leaf from the Republican 's book and relying on increased economic growth for about half the deficit reduction below the baseline deficit forecast . |
| 7 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 8 | The first quarter figures showed that problems remain in its key consumer electronics market , which used to account for about half the group 's total revenue . |
| 9 | That she will accept low wages ; she usually works for about half the men 's wages . |
| 10 | For example , the width of the five grades is not consistent , and grade 3 not only accounts for about half the land , but also covers a much wider range of possibilities than , say , grade 1 ( Gilg , 1975a ) , and even the subsequent sub-division of grade 3 in the 1970s can not be applied objectively ( Worthington , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 12 | This procedure can suggest a replacement for about half the genuine miskeyings it receives , and the replacement is usually right ( although it does suggest " teacher " for " Thacher " ) . |
| 13 | They extend for about half the radius of the disk . |
| 14 | Ten leading trades accounted for about half the total number of admissions . |
| 15 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 16 | Binder found an excess of 1000 cells/mm 2 lamina propria in mildly active UC compared with controls , and assuming specific gravity=1 and that lamina propria accounts for about half the weight of a biopsy specimen , the excess number of cells in lamina propria of a 10 mg specimen=150000 . |
| 17 | scheme or something like that for about half the price . |