Example sentences of "[prep] about [num] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 2 | On an ellipse of the proportions of about 2.5:1 the slider on the minor axis would move through the line of the ellipse . |
| 3 | Longer hours and shorter recreation are the norm , with the annual average working hours of a Japanese worker amounting to more than 2 , 100 : by contrast in Britain and the USA the average is 1,800–1,900 hours , with about 1,650 the norm in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Deutschmann , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 5 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 6 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 7 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 8 | From about 1967 the praise of the General-Secretary pouring out from all the media took on more and more extreme forms . |
| 9 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 10 | The stout cylinders rose from the decks of Flettner 's amazing rotor ships to about two-thirds the height of the masts on a sailing vessel . |
| 11 | From the 1930s to about 1970 the median interval from marriage to first birth remained 20 months . |
| 12 | The grain tax usually amounted to about one-tenth the value of the rice crop , considerably less than the burden imposed on the Indian peasantry . |
| 13 | At about ten-fifteen the previous evening she had heard a ‘ crack ’ followed by a dog barking — yapping , she said . |
| 14 | At about 16.15 the Scharnhorst succumbed to ceaseless bombardment and sank ; and at 17.45 , having fired all her ammunition and riven by shell bursts , Gneisenau 's captain ordered her to be scuttled . |
| 15 | By about 1950 the miners had removed most of the coal . |
| 16 | In the early afternoon , Allied reserve divisions and tanks passed through their comrades ' lines and by about 15.10 the ridge in its entirety was securely held and all objectives taken . |