Example sentences of "about thirty [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 2 | The proportion of crystalline material in natural cellulose varies a good deal but may be about thirty or forty per cent of the whole . |
| 3 | For a start only about thirty or so take part , since it is organised in four-ball teams , with one professional , a celebrity who is normally from sport or show business , and two amateurs . |
| 4 | ‘ About thirty or forty of them , all from April 1945 . |
| 5 | like a combine now 's about thirty or forty thousand . |
| 6 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you 'd be about thirty or more , ’ he said lamely . |
| 8 | But you know , my parents would pay , probably spend about thirty or something . |
| 9 | We found that in areas of Southern Norway and Sweden , and areas of Scotland where there are hard granite rocks and thin soils , that many of the lakes and streams have shown er a progressive acidification since the industrial revolution , and that this has accelerated in recent years , until about ten years ago , when er the emissions of So2 from the U K , particularly fell , about , between about nineteen seventy and er today of about thirty or fell forty per cent drop . |
| 10 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 11 | She was about thirty and she had very beautiful eyes . |