Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Police yesterday arrested about 20 Tibetan women demonstrating outside the Chinese embassy and demanding independence . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 5 | The study samples ideally contained about 2,000 — retrospective — interviews with eligible women . |