Example sentences of "[noun pl] was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 2 | The abundance of such papers , estimated by the American Geological Institute , was at that time ( 1969 ) between two and five per cent of the geological literature , whereas their impact on readers was about ten times higher . |
| 3 | In 1921 the population of the urban districts was about 195,000 , and of these only 5,000 were Poles . |
| 4 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 5 | In the examination in public , evidence showed that the threshold size of a viable site in the inner areas was about 5 acres . |
| 6 | The volume of pancreatic acini isolated from the saline treated rats was about 2.2 ( 0.3 ) ml per pancreas , whereas that from the rats infused with caerulein and injected with platelet activating factor it was significantly ( p<0.05 ) lower and declined to about 0.8 ( 0.1 ) ml and 0.9 ( 0.2 ) ml , respectively . |
| 7 | The longest march for any of the four columns was about ten miles , which the French foot soldiers could have done in four hours … |
| 8 | An Indian pilot who flies regularly to Katmandu said the rate of descent once the plane cleared the mountains was about 2,000 feet a minute instead of the usual 600 feet a minute . |
| 9 | The risk at 23 weeks was about 6 per 1000 , indicating that 1 in 165 pregnant women will subsequently deliver a stillborn infant . |
| 10 | Thus , while the proportion of both male and female non-manual workers in full-time employment covered exceeded 90 per cent , the corresponding proportion for male manual workers was about three-quarters and that for female manual workers was less than 60 per cent . |
| 11 | The proportion of women married below age 20 still childless after 20 years was about 2 per cent for women married in 1951 , 3 per cent for women married in 1956 . |
| 12 | Turnout among the 60,000 registered electors was about 80 per cent . |
| 13 | Around 1900 expectation of life at birth for males was about 48 in Britain compared with 45 in Germany and France , 44 in Italy and 40 in Spain . |
| 14 | So in the Spring of thirteen sixty , and they said that this was much more complicated , most of the timbers dated from about fourteen fifty although there was one that dated from twelve eighty nine and clearly was renewed and one of the roof timbers was about fifteen twenty , perhaps a repair . |
| 15 | The production of consumer goods was about one-quarter of normal . |
| 16 | In 1991 total spending in real terms was about 18 per cent higher than in 1979 . |
| 17 | Taking the two tests together , the difference between the Scots and the world champions was about 20 points . |
| 18 | Yeah , a cauli was about sixty P ! |
| 19 | The annual number of borrowings was about 5,000 . |
| 20 | So , for instance , Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating periodicals was about 13 times cheaper than for monographs . |
| 21 | The argument about the establishment of sections was about industrial identity and it was also about widening the democracy within the organization , bringing in more activists , giving them a say in their own conditions of service and in the strategic issues affecting their industry . |
| 22 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |
| 23 | It does appear that , in general , British new towns have a better than average safety record : a 1975 TRRL report suggests that the frequency of injury accidents in seven ‘ Mark One ’ new towns was about 20 per cent less than in other towns . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the calculations set out in the box suggest that the number of children under the age of 16 living with lone mothers in 1981 and largely or totally dependent on state benefits was about 544000 in England and Wales . |
| 25 | There was about fifty percent full the house of Commons was about fifty percent full which I thought was a little worrying . |
| 26 | In general , the first growth of German , French and Belgian railways was about 30 years after the first British lines . |
| 27 | At that time the flying life of a rear gunner on heavies was about nine hours . |
| 28 | In Hungary the birth prevalence of all congenital abnormality entities was about 65 per 1000 births ( table I ) . |
| 29 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 30 | The frequency of transformation with both pVM39 and pVMC3 plasmids was about three orders of magnitude lower than that obtained for pBR322 alone . |