Example sentences of "about two [num] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net outcome of his days in office were that about two hundred of the cases which were brought to his attention were treated with regard for human dignity , but the law affecting the rights of dependants and visitors was not changed ( except for one fairly minor aspect : in 1974 the sexually discriminatory ‘ Husbands Rule ’ was changed to allow women born or settled in Britain to have their foreign husbands here with them ) . |
| 2 | Such has been the destruction of the Brazilian rain forests that only about two hundred of the golden lion tamarin survive in the wild . |
| 3 | In all , about two thirds of the island of Krakatoa had disappeared and Verbeek estimated that about fifteen cubic kilometres of matter had been ejected by the eruption . |
| 4 | About two thirds of the men but less than half of the women answered " yes " to the question , " Do you think that young men should have some sexual experience before marriage ? " — a slightly larger figure than that of those claiming such experience — while a quarter of the men and half of the women replied , " no " . |
| 5 | From the seventh month onwards there is a marked increase In weight and by the end of that month it is about two thirds of the length and almost a third of the weight which it will achieve by birth . |
| 6 | In experiments of this sort , which provide a sort of population index of learning , about two thirds of the normal ( what geneticists call ‘ wild-type ’ ) flies avoid the shock-associated odour , and only one third avoid the control odour . |
| 7 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 8 | About two thirds of the Third World 's $1,000 billion debt was lent by around 550 of the world 's private banks from North America , Japan and Europe between the late 1960s and early 1980s . |
| 9 | They were therefore based on a reduced number of cases ( about two thirds of the ultimate total ) and consequently could provide only tentative results . |
| 10 | As a general rule , women ought to drink about two thirds of the safe levels for men , mainly because of their lower average body weight . |
| 11 | So you know we 're about two hundred miles from London , so we 're about , only about two thirds of the way from London to Penzance . |