Example sentences of "[conj] about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The empty weight is 925 lbs , fuel capacity is 17 US gallons and the range around 180 miles or about two hours . |
| 2 | About one , or about two |
| 3 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 4 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 5 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 6 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 7 | Cos there 's never more than about two of them is there ? |
| 8 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | On the basis of the present issue of statements this would mean that about two per cent of the child population are judged as likely to fall outside the provision of the 1988 Act . |
| 11 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 12 | However , I estimate that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day . |
| 13 | Although I should warn you that about two hundred of those nine hundred rigs were probably actor active as a result of special tax breaks , which were ended at the end of nineteen ninety two and wo n't be repeated . |
| 14 | I did tell her that about two days |
| 15 | I understand that there are about five hundred people were actually invited to the ceremony , so obviously this means that about two or three hundred cars were arriving . |
| 16 | All you need is £8,000 and about two months hard graft , as one Clwyd farmer found out . |
| 17 | A total of 26 farms were visited ( 10 in Norway , and 8 each in Germany and France ) and about two hours was spent with each family . |
| 18 | He organised a meeting of some of the more militant people who had attended the NICRA meeting and about two months later the DHAC was launched . |
| 19 | It had a tiny foyer but a wide stage , proper lights and about two hundred seats . |
| 20 | Now draw two lines roughly parallel , one either side of your route and about two miles out from it . |
| 21 | The round cheeses were about eight inches in diameter and about two inches thick . |
| 22 | He married late in life but in 1833 his wife died in childbirth , the baby also dying ; and about two years after this tragedy and after a series of professional reverses , notably the discovery of defective work at Sherborne House , which led to a negligence award against him , he gave up architectural practice . |
| 23 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 24 | In patients with obstructive jaundice secondary to extrahepatic bile duct obstruction , about one third have a focal lesion detected on initial ultrasound and about two thirds on computed tomography . |
| 25 | I had a very gory accident with a shopping trolley , but the gash in my leg has healed beautifully , and about two months ago I had a cataract removed ( local anaesthetic : all the rage these days and an absolute doddle ) . |
| 26 | I 've only got one round case and about two vol au vents |
| 27 | and about two weeks after that it was diagnosed that she had cancer of the ovary . |
| 28 | And about two minutes later he knocked on the door did n't he ? |
| 29 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 30 | It 's like my mum , she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in that 's how much it costs for a week . |