Example sentences of "about [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we did not require that dividend , which is spent on hospitals , schools and much else , we would be able to cut only about 1p off the 24p cost of a first-class stamp . |
| 2 | The narrowing on its own was unlikely however to reduce speeds significantly , so pinch points were placed at intervals of about 50m along the road . |
| 3 | In the United States , the encyclopaedia was launched early in 1991 at US$399 but the price is expected to fall to about US$299 by the end of the year . |
| 4 | Take St Leonard 's Bank , looking out on to Salisbury Crags — a quiet , well-maintained residential street about half-a-mile from the Royal Mile . |
| 5 | About 17% across the programme are day patients in hospitals , going for industrial therapy perhaps in the younger age groups . |
| 6 | Apart from impact craters , including mare basins , the most prominent lunar feature is the mare infill , about 17% of the lunar surface consisting of such infill . |
| 7 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 8 | In Susana 's canton , Portillo de Norte , near the River Lempa in Chalatenango , about 80% of the population of 3,000 were affiliated to FECCAS . |
| 9 | If Mercury consists of a largely iron core and a largely silicate mantle , then the core would account for about 80% of the mass and about 40% of the volume , which would make Mercury richer in iron than any other planet . |
| 10 | The surface of Mercury , broadly speaking , can be divided into two types of terrain , heavily cratered terrain , which accounts for about 80% of the imaged hemisphere , and smooth plains , which accounts for the remainder . |
| 11 | However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered . |
| 12 | However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered . |
| 13 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 14 | The guitar was described as a 1967 Fender Strat but I have since discovered that it was made in 1974 and that I therefore paid about £250 over the asking price . |
| 15 | Livestock , in the form of beef cattle and sheep , accounted for about 90% of the income . |
| 16 | The ‘ developing countries ’ of the third world will account for about 90% of the world 's population growth to the year 2000 . |
| 17 | Object beam : About 90% of the light passes through the beam splitter ( C ) and is reflected by mirror ( D ) to the beam expanding lens ( E ) and then onto the object ( G ) by mirror ( F ) . |
| 18 | About 90% of the questions related to water quality and to the spring problem of carp pox — though there were some lively discussions about the deviant mating behaviour of frogs … |
| 19 | This means that about 90% of the adult patients with ulcerative colitis have a normal genotype . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140m machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140 million PC machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 22 | In the lamina propria about 90% of the L1 + cells taken to be granulocytes were by specific marker eosinophil cationic protein shown to be eosinophilic granulocytes ( median number of EG2 + cells examined per specimen : 120 , range 9–225 ; n=7 ) . |
| 23 | When the peak pH occurred in the fundus , about 90% of the solid meal and 50% of the liquid phase of the meal remained in the stomach . |
| 24 | About 90% of the engines produced at Ellesmere Port will be exported to Europe . |
| 25 | Second , only about 50% of the thymocytes were double positive , although there was substantial individual variation ( 15–80% ) . |
| 26 | Third , the proportion of large DN cells has increased to about 50% of the total cell number . |
| 27 | As about 50% of the basal current in the airways was due to sodium absorption , chloride secretion was measured after the addition of amiloride ( 100μM ) which abolished electrogenic sodium absorption . |
| 28 | Per student per year , general practitioners ' funding is about 50% of the hospital rate . |
| 29 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 30 | Two hours after the meal was ingested , fundal pH had returned to baseline , but about 50% of the food solid phase and 20% of the liquid phase remained . |