Example sentences of "about thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 2 | On 21 March there were forty-two trains there , each with about thirty trucks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's about thirty people , really that of a very small central overhead , certainly when spread around a company with £1.8bn of sales . |
| 5 | The reaching was straightforward enough : at the first river we took off our boots , rolled up our trousers to mid-thigh and , dividing about thirty kilograms of photographic and emergency equipment between us , waded across . |
| 6 | We were intending to reach Hveravellir , now about thirty kilometres away , to be dropped there and to get out . |
| 7 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 8 | ‘ 7lD , about thirty minutes to completion if there are no problems , over , ’ replies Corporal Bromby , clambering on to his vehicle . |
| 9 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 10 | Standing at the bar on this rainy Friday night in Warsaw is a tall , thin , dark-haired and rather pretty woman of about thirty , who catches my glance as Leszek Kurowski and I enter and , with a darting , fitful gesture , invites me to approach . |
| 11 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 12 | Each session should ideally be about thirty minutes long . |
| 13 | I think I heard about thirty . |
| 14 | My third or fourth customer was a man of about thirty , with the athletic , boyish , curly-haired handsomeness of David Gower , the cricketer , or Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead of Lulu . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 16 | With the co-operation of Edmund Poole , until his enlistment in the RAF in 1941 , Hampden Jackson and seven young graduates augmented by about thirty part-time tutors increased course provision from thirty-five classes in 1939–40 to almost ninety in 1945 . |
| 17 | By 1762 his profitable practice enabled Fothergill to purchase Ham House in Upton with about thirty acres of land and to embark on the creation of an outstanding garden . |
| 18 | It was discovered that , under about thirty feet of vegetable loam , there existed one of the most fascinating graveyards , containing the remains of early animals which had hunted , fed and drank in the swamps . |
| 19 | He described James as of medium height , aged about thirty , dark , with a moustache , and wearing a scruffy frock coat and bowler hat . |
| 20 | A north country lad , about thirty . ’ |
| 21 | That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’ |
| 22 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |
| 23 | The remainder made for the Trig al Ab , a desert track running inland about thirty miles south of the coast . |
| 24 | One estimate of this period puts it at about thirty days . |
| 25 | About thirty at a guess . |
| 26 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 27 | I was greeted by a very attractive woman of about thirty . |
| 28 | But the shape , who was now revealed to be an amiable-looking man of about thirty , remained silent . |
| 29 | Swords were about thirty inches in length , the blade two-edged and tapering towards a diamond-shaped point . |
| 30 | She tried to brush her assailant aside with the words , ‘ One day all the facts , in about thirty years ’ time , will be published , ’ and was ticked off in return . |