Example sentences of "than about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |
| 2 | Her six or seven grandchildren — none older than about nine or ten — were all there with their parents . |
| 3 | A couple of black kids no more than about nine years old appeared from nowhere , hands in pockets , just sauntering by . |
| 4 | There is much annual variation in numbers , but regular sea-watches , which record the bulk of this movement in many years , have not reported more than about 200 birds in any spring . |
| 5 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 6 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 7 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 8 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 9 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 10 | Cos there 's never more than about two of them is there ? |
| 11 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | At depths greater than about 100 km the wave speeds are rather uncertain . |
| 13 | Most seismic sources in the Earth lie no deeper than about 100 km and generate much more seismic energy than all the lunar sources put together . |
| 14 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 15 | When a moth detects a loud bat sound , indicating a bat less than about eight feet away , it puts a different escape tactic into action . |
| 16 | In addition , when a sample is analysed by different techniques the results sometimes show substantial variations , while no technique is more precise than about 5 or 10 per cent of the measurement indicated . |
| 17 | It is estimated that the basin would have become no deeper than about 5 km , and as today Mare Imbrium is of negligible depth there could be up to about 5 km of infill . |
| 18 | To avoid the risk of overdoing it , I would n't recommend the d-i-yer trying more than about four hours a day with these . |
| 19 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 20 | The Labour group will keep within the government capping limits , obviously we will , and therefore the council tax increase is getting no more than about four percent , so you ca n't claim all this growth is gon na , well it certainly ca n't count all this growth is going to er , with this ma , massive increase in Council Tax . |
| 21 | Following the 86th OPEC Conference , Air Vice-Marshal Ginandjar Kartasasmita , the Indonesian Minister of Mines and Energy , commented on Nov. 30 that OPEC output in the first half of 1990 would probably be not less than about 22,500,000 bpd , and that the 22,086,000 bpd ceiling agreed for that period reflected a pragmatic approach which " assumed overproduction " . |
| 22 | Apart from those in urban employment nobody had more than about 10 miles to travel for their off-farm jobs . |
| 23 | About 10 years passed before the technology could produce satisfactory inversion layers thin enough to show quantum effects , that as , less than about 10 nanometres thick . |
| 24 | Felted roofing — and flat roofs in particular , need regular supervision if they are to stay watertight once they 're more than about 10 years old . |
| 25 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 26 | However , theoretical and experimental studies of the accretional processes show that it is unlikely that a body with the low mass of the Moon could have accreted in less than about 10 Ma . |
| 27 | By contrast these areas are rolling plains bearing many craters smaller than about 10 km diameter plus a few craters with diameters in the range 10 to 20 km . |
| 28 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 29 | He showed that the value of B for short tubes exceeded that for long ones by as much as 15 per cent and that for l/d greater than about 10 the values of B were independent of length . |
| 30 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |