Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 2 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 3 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 5 | The pulsar lies within about 2.3 arcmin of the centre of the target cluster , well within the tidal radius of 9 arcmin , although it is outside the core radius of 8arcsec . |
| 6 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |
| 7 | Er it has been brought to my attention that the R S P B erm which I think you all know that , for one reason or another , can call upon the membership of eight hundred and seventy thousand individuals and our sport was something between two point five to three million active participants , slightly depending on the definition , has only about two percent as personal members of the R Y A contributing directly . |
| 8 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 10 | For a start , the brain of a bee contains only about 300,000 neurones . |
| 11 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 12 | That range covers only about half of those organisations included in this survey . |
| 13 | Taylor and Urquhart observe that , for the great majority of research materials , use of an item declines rapidly about three years after publication , so that after this period any book has an equally low chance of being used . |
| 14 | As seen in optical section , it has typically about five times the actin content of an ordinary band of cortical actin ( Fig. 4i ) . |
| 15 | The richest and most varied zooplankton occurs below about 800 m in warmer Atlantic water . |
| 16 | This happens only about 13 times in each century , but such transits have now been the subject of detailed astronomical scrutiny for more than two hundred years . |
| 17 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 18 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 19 | Patients who were comparatively deficient in vitamin C with plasma concentrates below about 30 µmol/l did not secrete much ascorbate into gastric juice even after H pylori eradication . |
| 20 | ‘ That sounds just about normal . |
| 21 | Cos I boiled kettle at quarter to five cos normally she gets here about five |
| 22 | A commercial mild steel strains elastically about 0.15 per cent . |
| 23 | A keen sportsman who especially enjoys skiing and used to play hockey and rugby , Mr Essex is involved in the Northern Friends ' Schools triennial performance which draws together about 300 singers from Quaker schools in York , Pontefract and Ayton as well as professional soloists . |
| 24 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 25 | The baby weighs only about 3 ½ lb ( 1.6 kg ) at birth . |
| 26 | It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 . |
| 27 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 28 | Malawi , which exports normally about 40,000 tonnes a year , has suffered from a serious drought . |
| 29 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 30 | He brings home about 10 rupees a day after eating his meal in the bazaar and paying for repairs to the rickshaw . |