Example sentences of "[that] only about [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 2 | For example , one research study cited by Mays ( 1983 ) suggested that only about 5 per cent of Asian elders live alone ( compared with 38 per cent of white old people ) ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | However , yesterday 's ruling means that only about 10 of those boats will be able to resume operations immediately . |
| 4 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 5 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 6 | Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII . |
| 7 | US military officials said that only about 130 people remained in detention out of a total of 5,300 Panamanians who had been held for questioning since the invasion . |
| 8 | When the Soviet Union collapsed , Russia found that only about 200 people knew anything of any economic relevance . |
| 9 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 10 | Such has been the destruction of the Brazilian rain forests that only about two hundred of the golden lion tamarin survive in the wild . |
| 11 | Taking these and studies commissioned by donors in countries where they are the predominant donor into account , it appears that only about ten African aid recipients have been studied in this way . |
| 12 | This showed that deaf school-leavers , educated orally , had an average reading age of eight and three quarters and that only about ten per cent of their speech was intelligible to a hearing person . |
| 13 | Even so a loose diplomatic understanding survived after a fashion , while British opinion polls in 1967 suggested that only about 25 per cent were firmly of the view that the government was too close to Washington . |
| 14 | It is not a rosy outlook for most of them , though : he estimates that only about three unsought artist have ever been selected for commissions . |
| 15 | Please remember when filling in the questionnaire that only about half to two thirds of the newsletters printed go to members ; the others all are given away at clinics , shows , etc. possibly to people who have no idea what NCT is . |
| 16 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 17 | They found that only about half would have voted Labour if they had been registered . |
| 18 | our ILEA studies suggest that only about half the difference between reading scores of children from West Indian homes and their white counterparts may be accounted for by socio-economic factors . |
| 19 | Asking people to match the colours they could recall with colours on a standard colour chart revealed that only about half the dreams contained colour , and many of these were in pastel shades . |
| 20 | It was alarming that only about half the teachers responded adversely to the use of the word ‘ alien ’ in this question : |
| 21 | I think er what this exercise today has shown us is that only about half the factors in H two er have a strategic dimension in so far as they would affect a choice between broad sectors around York . |
| 22 | Indeed , when Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that only about 400 fascists were present , ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Uptake of vaccine is very variable — one study showed that only about 49 per cent of GPs have had the vaccination , for example , even though the GP is just as much at risk as any other doctor . ’ |