Example sentences of "[coord] about [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 2 | The main targets are damson-hop aphids , related to the common greenfly and about half the size of a grain of rice , which have developed immunity to pesticides . |
| 3 | Mozambique has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world , approximately 200 per 1,000 live births.4 Those who depend on emergency support because of war and drought number about 1,690,000 and about half the population is wholly or partially dependent on food aid . |
| 4 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 5 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 6 | In regard to TEC courses , for example , these are offered by over thirty Welsh colleges , and the Polytechnic of Wales and about half the Institutes of Higher Education play a major role in the provision of courses leading to TEC higher awards . |
| 7 | It was mostly the head , and a grubby stub of spine and ribs , and about half the skin . |