Example sentences of "to about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their happy relationship flourished for forty years and led to about two hundred plants being introduced into Europe from America . |
| 2 | Most conscientious objectors are given four-year sentences which they reduce to about two and a half years by working . |
| 3 | When they just try to entertain , to be stompy dynamic pop punks with a snigger and a scream — and that amounts to about two and a half tracks tonight — they are briefly , brashly terrific . |
| 4 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 5 | Overall , representation increased the chances of success to about one in three , but if representation by a friend or relative is excluded , then the success rate for those with ‘ expert ’ representation rose to about two in five cases . |
| 6 | It soon became apparent that the working time each week would be limited to about two hours . |
| 7 | Oh , it 's a basic wage but it increased to about two pounds fifty or something , because of the status of the job . |
| 8 | So in some groups , if I say right , this client 's willing to commit himself for three years minimum , they 'll discount the initial charge down to about two percent . |
| 9 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 10 | And then wages then for a labourer that er er assistants and stuff like that we only come to about two pound . |
| 11 | It says that of the identified possible savings of , I think it was three hundred and seventeen thousand , we 've already got commitment to about two thirds of those , but there is sufficient money left to fund a speed camera site th erm in the county and we have acted on that . |
| 12 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 13 | Emissions today are down to about two tonnes per year . ’ |
| 14 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 15 | And that adds up , one way and another , to about two hundred and forty students who are erm working with us at any given time . |
| 16 | It has been suggested by some that the government and employers were left free to reduce wages and to rationalize industry , and trade union membership did decline from 5.5 million in 1925 to about 4.8 million in 1928 . |
| 17 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 18 | The walls probably stood to about 5 feet in height with heavy cruck roofs ( formed from trusses built with bent timbers ) on top of them . |
| 19 | The most powerful vibrations from a quake range from 0.5 hertz to about 5 hertz . |
| 20 | Such bonds are generally equal to about 5 per cent of the tender 's value . |
| 21 | Second , a study of problem drug users known to eight agencies in the South Tyneside area during a six-month period in 1981 ( Pattison et al .1982 ) produced an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.2 known opioid users per 1,000 of the adult population , compared to about 5 per 1,000 in Wirral . |
| 22 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 23 | Will the Minister consider increasing the current exclusion zones of 1 nautical mile to about 5 nautical miles in order to give those cavalcades some protection ? |
| 24 | Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 . |
| 25 | This is equivalent to about 10 g of charcoal , 50 g of wood or 200 g of bone , but depends on the state of preservation of the sample and degree of sample pretreatment to be undertaken . |
| 26 | The average female specimen grows to about 10 centimetres in length , and the male 3–4 centimetres longer . |
| 27 | Existing theories are reckoned to hold good down to about 10 seconds after the Big Bang . |
| 28 | When using the pump this was reduced to about 10 minutes . |
| 29 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 30 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |