Example sentences of "[verb] only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 2 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 3 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 4 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 5 | Throughout , exports met only about half of their cost . |
| 6 | Since the US Patent Office opened in 1790 over four million patents have been issued — yet women have received only about 60 000 ( or 1.5% ) . |
| 7 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 8 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 9 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 10 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 11 | Direct taxation — including forced loans and benevolences — produced only about 35 per cent . |
| 12 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now age is taking its toll , with Mr Dunlop and Mr Fullarton part of a dwindling band of veterans , numbering only about 50 in Britain . |
| 15 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |
| 16 | Er it has been brought to my attention that the R S P B erm which I think you all know that , for one reason or another , can call upon the membership of eight hundred and seventy thousand individuals and our sport was something between two point five to three million active participants , slightly depending on the definition , has only about two percent as personal members of the R Y A contributing directly . |
| 17 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 19 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 20 | The crust , therefore , is an extremely thin surface layer representing only about 0.5 per cent of the Earth 's radius . |
| 21 | For a start , the brain of a bee contains only about 300,000 neurones . |
| 22 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 23 | That range covers only about half of those organisations included in this survey . |
| 24 | An estimated 1,000,000 tonnes would go to Russia in return for oil , but would buy only about 1,500,000 tonnes , whereas , Castro stated , under previous Soviet agreements one tonne of sugar had bought 7.5 tonnes of oil . |
| 25 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 26 | So , taken in conjunction with the small but resolute Belgian Army , the western Allies fielded some 3,900,000 troops , against whom the Germans could deploy only about 2,500,000 . |
| 27 | Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution . |
| 28 | Has a very calm nature and er explosive turn of pace and all round looks very promising this nineteen year old who 's made only about half a dozen appearances in the first team . |
| 29 | Product wages probably accelerated only about half as much in the largest firms as in the smallest , thus facilitating the expansion of the former as the latter were knocked out . |
| 30 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |