Example sentences of "about [num] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 2000 delegates were in attendance with about one third coming from outside the US — this year a contingent of about 30 represented the former communist countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | In the eastern town of Douala a crowd of about 50,000 demanding the overthrow of Biya was confronted by troops on May 16 , but refused to disperse . |
| 3 | Professor Dyos calculated that of the 75,000 people by which Camberwell grew during the 1870s , about 52,000 represented the balance of migration into and out of the district and 23,000 were the result of natural increase . |
| 4 | For instance , Polybius was used in England about 1740 to support the cause of yearly parliaments . |
| 5 | After the lecture the cadets are divided into groups of about twenty-five to discuss the implications of all that they have heard . |
| 6 | Another river god , the Coarse stone figure of about 1800 representing the Thames that is placed in front of the north court at Ham House , illustrates the continuity of this theme . |
| 7 | Of these about 25,000 use the advisory service and up to 35,000 use the full discretionary service . |
| 8 | When this happens take a hydrometer reading and if the gravity is about 1010 syphon the beer into the wine cube . |
| 9 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 10 | About 200 joined the march along the Mile End Road . |
| 11 | He was already master mason to the cathedral and about 1310 undertook the new work of the presbytery , at the joint cost of the bishop and priory . |