Example sentences of "have about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporate finance division has about 180 staff in five departments : corporate advisory , projects finance , securities , debt financing and international corporate finance . |
| 2 | He has about 100 days to begin to crank new reforms into action . |
| 3 | China has about eight factories that refine the ore . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union also has about 275 of the older SS-4 missiles and 25 of the slightly more modern SS-5s still in service . |
| 5 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 6 | She continues to catch and bring back bees , one at a time , until each larva has about two bees to eat . |
| 7 | The RSPCA estimate that the UK has about 500,000 stray dogs on the streets at any one time and that about 1,000 dogs are destroyed every day . |
| 8 | A major difference between the dictionaries is the number of words defined — learner 's dictionaries tend to contain about 30,000 headwords , general purpose dictionaries ( e.g. CED ) have about 100,000 definitions , Websters Third New International has 450,000 and the Oxford English Dictionary has about 500,000 definitions . |
| 9 | The county of Copenhagen has about 500 000 inhabitants , about 10% of the total Danish population . |
| 10 | The Direct Marketing Association , he says , has about 500 members — mainly financial services firms , publishing houses and charities — but its primary aim is to raise the public image of direct marketing . |
| 11 | The Scottish Civic Trust 's call for action was welcomed last night by Gavin Stamp of the Alexander Thomson Society , formed two years ago , which has about 500 members . |
| 12 | Greenock has about 120 people out on assignment . |
| 13 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 14 | He has about sixty here . |
| 15 | The club has about sixty members from industry and commerce , with East and West Sussex , and the boundaries of the surrounding counties . |
| 16 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 17 | Davidson added that Somerset has about four cases to hear next week which means that Chilcott is left kicking his heels for another seven days . |
| 18 | We can assume that each Overseas Group has about four visitors per year . |
| 19 | CCOO has about 17,000 members or 26 per cent of the workforce , and SLF-UGT 12–13,000 ( of which something under 2,000 were brought into the union by the SLF ) . |
| 20 | The Garden now has about 80 PCs , used by approximately 100 staff , about half of the total workforce . |
| 21 | She also collects teddy bears and has about fifty of them . |
| 22 | The ‘ ideal ’ old people 's home has about fifty beds , mostly in single rooms , and accommodates both men and women . |
| 23 | She has about fifty jackets . |
| 24 | It has about 200 branches , the most active in the North , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | He has about 200 kilos in his shop . |
| 26 | Chicago-based R R Donnelley & Sons Co says it bought SoftCopy Inc , which duplicates floppy disks in Orem , Utah ; terms were not disclosed ; founded in 1984 , SoftCopy has about 200 people and provides floppy replication , inventory management , order processing and distribution for computer hardware and software manufacturers , it added . |
| 27 | EWM , which acquired Pitlochry Knitwear two weeks ago in a £6 million deal , now has about 200 high street shops in the UK . |
| 28 | So E. coli has about 4 x 10 3 genes . |
| 29 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 30 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |