Example sentences of "[that] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 2 | The Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , reported that about 5,000 students were building barricades of garbage cans in front of the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 3 | The councillors will point to a recent survey by their harbours department which showed that about 5,000 ships a year are using the Pentland Firth . |
| 4 | From her Mexican study , Eckstein reports that about 38 per cent of the men with factory and white-collar jobs said they obtained their work through a personal acquaintance ( Eckstein 1977 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 7 | Bradshaw and Millar ( 1991 ) found that about 17 per cent of the single mothers in their sample had lived with their former partners before becoming a lone parent . |
| 8 | Maps show that about 17 miles north of today 's factory there is a Whessoe Cottage and Grange , and the remains of a manor house . |
| 9 | He did not need to turn to Posidonius for his cheap ethnography — assuming , what is by no means certain , that about 69 B.C. Posidonius ' history had already been published . |
| 10 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 11 | After the Paris meeting it was announced that about 85 per cent of this amount had been pledged , with donors promising $300,000,000 in debt relief and between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 in grants and loans , mainly to finance imports required for the economic recovery programme . |
| 12 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 13 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 14 | It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the union 's members in Hackney and Tower Hamlets voted in the ballot , supported officially by NUT national leaders . |
| 15 | The German Foreign Ministry called for a fairer distribution of the burden of aid to the CIS , citing figures produced by the European Commission which showed that about 75 per cent of all aid to the Soviet Union since September 1990 had come from the EC and 57 per cent from Germany alone ( the figure included humanitarian aid , credits and special payments for troop withdrawal made by Germany ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , I estimate that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I did tell her that about two days |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He said the military 's main task is to keep open main roads and supply routes , and that about 60,000 former guerrillas are acting as pro-government militias , helping the defence forces . |
| 24 | It is likely that about 3,000 people , divided roughly equally between supporters and opponents of the rebellion , perished . |
| 25 | A further estimated 50 people were killed in a series of bomb explosions in Hyderabad on July 15 , and the Guardian of July 16 reported that about 3,000 people had been killed in communal violence in the province since 1985 . |
| 26 | After unification it was proposed that about 16 politicians from East Germany should attend with observer status and that at the next elections to the European Parliament ( scheduled for 1994 ) Germany 's representation in the Parliament would be increased from its present 81 members to 97 . |
| 27 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 28 | Pakistan 's immigration records show that about 2,800 Arab volunteers are still in the country , including 500 involved in relief work among the Afghan refugees in Peshawar . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that about 20,000 office workers were displaced as a result of the recent bomb . |
| 30 | It was reported that about 20,000 refugees fled to Uganda and Zaïre in the last two weeks of January as a result of the fighting . |