Example sentences of "and about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy consumption is about 100 units ( kg of coal equivalent per person ) in a developing country and about 10000 units in Europe and the U.S.A. This is affected by the fact that developing countries mostly have tropical or sub-tropical climates while developed countries are in the temperate zone , but there is a similar difference of about 100 : 1 in income per head between the rich countries and the poor countries ( The Economist — the world in figures ) . |
| 2 | Wrongful dismissal actions seldom reach a full trial in the High Court and about 70 per cent of all unfair dismissal claims are settled or withdrawn without the need for a hearing . |
| 3 | We had four on board and about 70 US gallons of fuel , a good half tank giving us more than 90 minutes flying . |
| 4 | By the end of July at least 23 investigation or arrest warrants against businessmen and politicians had been issued in Venice and about 70 arrest warrants in Milan . |
| 5 | After 20 years and about 70 such schemes , the Reagan administration began to deploy 50 MX missiles in the old Minute-man-3 silos in Wyoming . |
| 6 | They , and about fifty other pupils , were allowed in to have one last look at the Bookman before he left . |
| 7 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 8 | I opened a cupboard and about fifty pairs of Signe 's shoes fell over me . |
| 9 | A chicken farmer in Norfolk had the front of his house sprayed with liquid manure and a pharmaceutical laboratory was broken into in South Wales and about fifty white mice released . ’ |
| 10 | bought it for the dog and about fifty quid of it altogether |
| 11 | During the first decade of the eighteenth century she made further journeys through some of the southern counties and about 1712 she visited Epsom , Hampton Court , and Windsor . |
| 12 | At least 250 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in a wave of bombings which ripped through Bombay 's business district on Friday . |
| 13 | In Bombay , where at least 246 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in 13 bomb blasts last Friday , police said a large amount of explosives was still in the city and as yet unlocated . |
| 14 | Summering flocks of up to about 50 birds are probably regular , and about 3,000 summered in Rye Bay in 1956 . |
| 15 | Mr Thomas met with the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Kampuchean Christian Committee which comprises 43 house churches and about 3,000 members throughout the country . |
| 16 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 from cancer of the cervix . |
| 17 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 form cancer of the cervix . |
| 18 | It is supplemented by some 800 loaves of bread , 400lb of porridge oats , 150 Christmas puddings and about 2,000 mince pies . |
| 19 | Other searchlights came on , but the German-looking silhouette of Campbeltown and some other confusions of identity enabled the intruders to bluff their way for another five minutes and about 2,000 yards ( 1,800m ) nearer the harbour . |
| 20 | His trust also looks after 1,200 female mental patients and about 2,000 male ones . |
| 21 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
| 22 | This is how almost all of his days have been spent , casting bait , checking behind him , moving on ; apart from odd nights in hostels where he can get a bath and about thirteen hours of near-coma to catch up , he 's been continuously on the road since the dawn that he stole the car and the cash that has become his fighting fund . |
| 23 | So what was the overall effect of rent transfer , of agricultural output as a result of the abolition of rent landlords ? estimates that the rental land was thirty three percent of the total land area in ninetee in nineteen thirty and about thirteen percent of the total value of agricultural output was transferred amongst households as rent before land reform . |
| 24 | The temperature seems to increase with depth , reaching about 1000 K at about 300 km and about 2000 K at about 1000 km . |
| 25 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 26 | These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry . |
| 27 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 28 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 29 | Following my right hon. Friend 's statement about asylum on 2 July , we have received about 100 letters from hon. Members and about 750 from members of the public and interested organisations . |
| 30 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |