Example sentences of "[adv] has about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 2 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 3 | He already has about 700 of the names . |
| 4 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 5 | NATO already has about 7000 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe in the form of Lance and Pershing Ia short-range ballistic missiles , Honest John rockets , artillery , bombs , atomic mines and depth bombs . |
| 6 | He already has about three quarters of the membership on his computer database of members ' electronic expertise , so the amount of extra work will not be too great , but it will be a considerable relief to me . |
| 7 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union also has about 275 of the older SS-4 missiles and 25 of the slightly more modern SS-5s still in service . |
| 9 | California now has about 10 structures with base isolation . |
| 10 | It reckons MCI now has about 18% of the US long-distance business , up from about 14% three years ago . |
| 11 | HDS , which now has about ten sales staff , might be able to up the ante with a sales drive of its own . |
| 12 | The scheme now has about 3,000 participating dentists . |
| 13 | The Garden now has about 80 PCs , used by approximately 100 staff , about half of the total workforce . |
| 14 | EWM , which acquired Pitlochry Knitwear two weeks ago in a £6 million deal , now has about 200 high street shops in the UK . |
| 15 | Sunnyvale , California-based modems specialist Telebit Corp has firmed up its January agreement to acquire Octocom Systems Inc for 5m new shares : Telebit currently has about 7.5m shares outstanding so Octocom holders would have 40% of the enlarged firm on completion in May . |
| 16 | Since privatisation ( and no doubt helped by the £200 million of public investment ) the firm has expanded substantially and currently has about 1,000 more employees than at the beginning of 1990 . |