Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Review usually contained about four articles ( seventy . |
| 2 | Ever since Lavoisier , chemists had kept their science distinct from what was coming to be called ‘ physics ’ ; Thomas Thomson even declared about 1840 that it would not matter if chemists and natural philosophers had different theories of heat — each could use what worked better for them . |
| 3 | This represented a considerable decline during the previous 100 years , since one heronry alone contained about 400 pairs about 1840 . |
| 4 | This building probably held about 100 people and was used for a Sunday evening service as well as the Sunday School . |
| 5 | The Korean communists at Yenan probably numbered about 300 , some of whom fought with the CCF . |
| 6 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 7 | Police yesterday arrested about 20 Tibetan women demonstrating outside the Chinese embassy and demanding independence . |
| 8 | Since Sri Lanka previously exported about 200,000 tonnes of tea annually , only a little less than India , the biggest exporter , the loss is crucial . |
| 9 | By the time the masters had recovered from the apres ski and had their lie-in , the boys only managed about two hours ’ skiing a day . ’ |
| 10 | Those in favour of an executive presidency thus constituted about 40 per cent of the electorate ; to be accepted , the proposal had to be approved by over half of the total electorate . |
| 11 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 12 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 13 | The study samples ideally contained about 2,000 — retrospective — interviews with eligible women . |