Example sentences of "[adv] only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 2 | Did n't have a great long list , perhaps only about six or ten major P L C's . |
| 3 | Perhaps only about 30 per cent of jobs within UDG-supported schemes were new to the area , although of these , three-quarters were new to the national economy . |
| 4 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 5 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 6 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 7 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 8 | A big avon , bulk shotted in only about three feet of racing water . |
| 9 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 10 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 11 | In 1960 , looking at sub-saharan Africa as a whole , such land was still densities were still only about 77 per square mile of cultivable land , or 3 hectares per head . |
| 12 | If we allow Venus five transits of the orbit , the chances of its affecting the Earth are still only about 28:1 against . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's still only about fifty . |
| 14 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 15 | These were dug as a method of extracting coal at fairly shallow levels , and were usually only about twenty feet deep . |
| 16 | The once-powerful communists have splintered into hundreds of pieces , the largest of which is the Democratic Party of the Left , now expected to pick up only about 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | On the North-East circuit today , which stretches from Middlesbrough to Ashington , boys make up only about three per cent of the dancing community . |
| 18 | The total potential net pay exhibited by the Aabenraa patch reef is about 24 m whereas in the inter-reef area at Hønning , it is probably only about 10 m . |
| 19 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 20 | William Bartlemas was not tall , probably only about five foot seven , but his angular body gave the illusion of height and his knobbly limbs moved with adolescent awkwardness . |
| 21 | Young , probably only about 40 . |
| 22 | ICI 's power stations put out only about 1.3 per cent of the UK 's sulphur total and 0.5 per cent of the nitrogen oxide total . |
| 23 | they only need washing , I mean I might be wrong , they might have , they might have gone funny , but I doubt it they 've not been up there that long really only about two |
| 24 | Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines . |
| 25 | It was n't only about half an acre or less . |
| 26 | And the Uni was then only about two thousand eight hundred strong . |
| 27 | Why then in 1986 were there only about 1,000 females over the age of forty in training ? |
| 28 | Yet only about 15 per cent will be sold fresh ; the rest will go to make cranberry sauce , juice and other products . |
| 29 | Currently only about two per cent of Wellcome 's shares are held by US investors compared with 26 per cent of Glaxo and 35 per cent of SmithKline Beecham shares , despite the fact that half of Wellcome 's pharmaceutical sales are in North America . |
| 30 | It seemed like an age but it was actually only about 10 seconds before I was able to move my arms and legs . |