Example sentences of "[adv] about thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ an ungainly , awkward-looking man , extremely short-sighted and prematurely bald ’ who was ‘ perhaps about thirty , but … might have been almost any age between sixteen and sixty : being one of those strange creatures who never decline into ancient appearance , but look their oldest when they are very young , and get over it at once ’ . |
| 2 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 3 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that , of the thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes annually in the United States only about thirty die . |
| 5 | For a start only about thirty or so take part , since it is organised in four-ball teams , with one professional , a celebrity who is normally from sport or show business , and two amateurs . |
| 6 | ‘ Only about thirty , ’ Carrie said . |
| 7 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 8 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 9 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 10 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 11 | Actually who stayed for mass there was only about thirty . |
| 12 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 13 | I I I visit approximately about thirty golf clubs on a weekly basis |
| 14 | You 've got forty minutes , that 's about what you 've got , it 's just about thirty minutes , okay ? |
| 15 | I 've been away about thirty . |
| 16 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 17 | Oh could n't tell you my gross straight off , erm I do twenty hours a week and I bring home er bring home about thirty five pound . |
| 18 | And that is probably about thirty percent of it . |
| 19 | Yes , well , we do have a housing crisis , there is no doubt about that , but to say that it 's government created is just another ploy of the Labour Group and the Liberal Democrats who , as Michael has said , are usually incohesion ; that is why we are a small group of ten on Council fighting probably about thirty five . |
| 20 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 21 | We were intending to reach Hveravellir , now about thirty kilometres away , to be dropped there and to get out . |
| 22 | Here about thirty selected craftsman and women display and sell their work . |
| 23 | The remainder made for the Trig al Ab , a desert track running inland about thirty miles south of the coast . |
| 24 | The third person in the car was another Egyptian , definitely about thirty , slim and dressed , like the Prince , in a smart , European-style suit but with the usual pot-like tarboosh of the Egyptian professional on his head . |