Example sentences of "of about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 2 | Decca is offering a more modest Mozart sampler of about a dozen compact discs . |
| 3 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 4 | This is in line with the industry 's contribution of about a quarter of the ‘ Gross Highland product ’ . |
| 5 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 6 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 7 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 8 | Olomouc has a population of about a hundred thousand but it 's a small town : I kept bumping into people I 'd already met , and Irena appeared to know everybody . |
| 9 | Violence flared first in Helston , where an angry crowd of about a thousand gathered as William Body , a Commissioner charged with destroying every relic of popery , was desecrating the Church . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 11 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |
| 12 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 13 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 14 | There was a card club which met once a week in winter , where Green played with a group of about a dozen , including his doctor , Richard Scambler , and James Fleming of Grasmere and the Partridges , Robert and Edward . |
| 15 | Though Ruby 's brain weight is only 400 grams , about a third that of a modern human 's , she has proved an apt pupil and now understands and uses a vocabulary of about a thousand words . |
| 16 | By September 1988 there were six such groups meeting fortnightly with a membership of about a dozen each . |
| 17 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 18 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 19 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 20 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 21 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 22 | The terror suspects were tailed around the clock by surveillance teams of about a dozen officers each . |
| 23 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 24 | To see reindeer in a natural setting visit the Cairngorms where there 's a herd of about a hundred animals . |
| 25 | Interestingly , ICL is also one of about a dozen alpha sites for Cypress ' HyperSparc — there are two unnamed companies in Germany also playing with the thing — indeed it reportedly found seven bugs in the chip-set for Cypress . |
| 26 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 27 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 28 | Each autumn , collective ministerial choices of about a dozen topics for PAR studies were to be made in co-operation with the CPRS . |
| 29 | Things abruptly changed with the solemn arrival of about a dozen ceremonially dressed adults , led by a tall , bony Tominah jangling with necklaces of crocodile teeth . |
| 30 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |