Example sentences of "about [det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 2 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 3 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 4 | About half a million Americans live in some 176000 adobe houses , 97 per cent of which are in the four contiguous states of New Mexico , Arizona , Texas and California . |
| 5 | Databases have continued to grow : the Land Survey borehole database now contains about half a million lithological records from just over 90 000 boreholes , and the structural database contains data from more than 11 000 sites . |
| 6 | In the period under discussion , the Zande number about half a million and live mainly as cultivators growing maize , sweet potatoes , ground-nuts and some fruit ; the presence of tsetse fly makes it impossible to keep cattle . |
| 7 | Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728 , only 40 per cent survived to their second birthday . |
| 8 | Firstly , let me say that you 're not alone — there are about half a million people in this country with a stammer severe enough to need help . |
| 9 | The " real property " and " the real respectability " of the new centres of population would thus be given political weight , and the national electorate would be enlarged by " about half a million persons , and these all connected with the property of the country , having a valuable stake amongst us , and deeply interested in our institutions ' … |
| 10 | Williams died 29 November 1802 in Bath , worth about half a million pounds . |
| 11 | According to a recent WHO estimate , about half a million women die every year as a consequence of pregnancy , birth and other maternal causes , and many more are chronically impaired physically ; there are no estimates available as to the number of pregnancy related diseases , illnesses and health impairments . |
| 12 | According to a WHO estimate , about half a million women die annually of illnesses associated with the process of childbearing ( WHO , 1985 , p. 5 ) . |
| 13 | Today Loblaws makes about half a million dollars a week on its 20 or so ‘ green ’ products — and sales are increasing . |
| 14 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 15 | At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed . |
| 16 | Erm , if you compare for example erm their real savings on er er budgetary items er it comes to about half a million , just over half a million er compared to the ones we 're putting forward about a third of million and if you look at the dips in the two budgets for that you 'll see that erm we disagree with their saving on community arts and that er they propose saving on in on information technology costs is unrealistic er that market is changing very rapidly there 's another large organisation in this city which has found us going down track which we are now proposing to down , has produced no income at all , no no no reduction in cost at all . |
| 17 | Welcome back : The last remaining personal possessions of Robert Maxwell have been sold at auction for about half a million pounds . |
| 18 | You could always say , oh well er they did n't stop me and you claim about half a million hey that 's not bad drop something on your foot and say |
| 19 | The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates . |
| 20 | Now we produce erm about half a million or 550,000 units a year , that is not volume in world terms er we acknowledge that we compete in some of the volume sectors , but increasingly as our new products are introduced , we 're very careful to put them in discrete market segments or in niches . |
| 21 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 22 | One 25kg bag will cover about half a square metre , to a thickness of 25mm |
| 23 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 24 | About half a dozen faithful female Christians kept the rector company at early service usually . |
| 25 | ‘ There have been about half a dozen desperate letters over the years . |
| 26 | There were only about half a dozen of them , and they could see clearly that they were wizened and wrinkled and , quite plainly , not worth gathering |
| 27 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
| 28 | About half a dozen Gilbertine novices lived there , studying theology and philosophy , and the school was possibly attended by other town students ( Durham Hall at Oxford , established in 1286 , was a similar , though larger , institution , housing sixteen students ) . |
| 29 | On the other hand , I had read the paper since I was 11 and had about half a dozen good jokes about The Cure that I was keen to share with the nation . |
| 30 | About half a dozen employees decided not to relocate their homes immediately at the time of the company 's move south , but to relocate in the following year . |