Example sentences of "about [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These counts recorded totals of 23–50 birds in 1953 , about 290 in the period 1967–1968 , and 326 , including 98 young of the year , in 1971 . |
| 2 | After leaving school at around ten o'clock , we arrived at Cliff College at about four-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 3 | I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework . |
| 4 | At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory . |
| 5 | Er , sixty five for breast , and I think they 're about fifty for the legs . |
| 6 | You get about fifty with the package , and the balance when you send your registration card back — as good a reason as any for registering , since images of this quality are usually expensive to buy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It aims to complement work on the south by this researcher , and so to outline aspects of the growing difference after about 1770 between the high-wage industrial north and the poorly-paid ‘ de-industrialising ’ south . |
| 9 | Even DEC may find that it may need to hang on to its V.3.2-level Ultrix rather longer than it intended : it says that so far about 500 of the 3,000 Ultrix applications are being converted for OSF/1 , which does n't sound like unbounded enthusiasm on the part of the industry . |
| 10 | About 500 of the company 's 904 workforce will be on site for the occasion which was coming nearly five years after a visit by the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 11 | ‘ We currently have a 150 strong database of local suppliers but hopefully this will grow to about 500 by the end of the year . ’ |
| 12 | About 7,000 of the jobs are going from the traditional ICI business , while the other 2,000 will go from Zeneca . |
| 13 | Cecilia Darne , who lived round the corner , said she heard a bell toll once at about eight in the morning . |
| 14 | The variations within that calculation are not extreme — perhaps an extra half-hour at breakfast ; perhaps they did not leave Aberdeen precisely ( Boswell says ‘ about eight in the morning ’ ) , perhaps the road wound around to make thirty miles . |
| 15 | But she drops that kid about eight in the morning ! |
| 16 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 17 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 18 | He bearded Jean-Paul when his brother finally got up at about eleven in the morning . |
| 19 | I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | You also need to allow headroom by leaving a little space between the top edge of the frame and the subject 's head , except for big c.lose-ups when the rule is to set the head so that the eyes come at about two-thirds of the height of the picture . |
| 21 | Around this swathing , for about two-thirds of the length of the trunk from the hips upward , were several turns of a well-made twisted cord , fastened in what is called the half-hitch , in good preservation . ’ |
| 22 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 23 | Stillbirths account for about two-thirds of the perinatal deaths in Japan . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 25 | About 800 of the city 's 15/16 year-olds and 800 17/18 year-olds ( a 1 in 10 sample ) will complete questionnaires in 1987 . |
| 26 | About 30 of the shops are now profitable , according to Mr Bishko , but not profitable enough to cover overheads — which are rather higher than he had anticipated . |
| 27 | I decided to be helpful and , rather than bother anyone , I took it upon myself to move about 30 of the magazines to the Women 's Section . |
| 28 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 29 | During this period the population of Danzig rose from about 50,000 in the 1830s to about 70,000 by 1860 . |
| 30 | The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period . |