Example sentences of "and [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles . |
| 2 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 3 | We spent days building our fire right opposite and only about fifteen yards from his front door — never was anything so well watched . |
| 4 | The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB . |
| 5 | A tank can be maintained without filtration , but more work is involved and only about half the number of fish can be kept . |
| 6 | About 80 species of birds worldwide have dispensed with the bothersome business of raising their own young and only about 50 of these are cuckoos of one sort or another . |
| 7 | Tubifex should be fed sparingly and only about once a month and should never be given to fish fry or young fish . |
| 8 | About 20% of care is consistently shown to be inappropriate and only about 15% of medical interventions are based on solid scientific evidence . |
| 9 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 10 | It is almost one degree away from the polar point ; it is 120 light-years away and only about six times as luminous as the Sun , so that it is by no means the equal of the northern hemisphere 's Polaris . |
| 11 | The Hotel Ritz welcomes guests to a lovely position on the Venetian Arc , near the interesting old town of Caorle and only about 200 yards from a splendid , wide beach which is particularly suitable for families with children . |
| 12 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 13 | This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . |
| 14 | There was an upper limit of £50,000 on the amount of aid , and only about 500 projects were approved between 1971 and 1977 ( Marquand 1979 ) . |
| 15 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 16 | Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish . |
| 17 | reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent . |
| 18 | In fact , about 95% of modules seen by subject assessors are certificated and only about 5% are refused . |
| 19 | Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away . |
| 20 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 21 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 22 | Norwich is the better bet because Ipswich is being redeveloped and only about a third of the space at the moment is being used for the , for shopping . |
| 23 | Not that this would necessarily matter in itself , but the music they 're producing is dour , grey monotonous and generally about as much fun as a dose of the clap and a tenth as infectious . |
| 24 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 25 | She took the material off of the wall , and all her shoes and make up and just about everything cept the big stuff . |
| 26 | June is for Giorgio , Jonathon , a couple of jolly clever patterns — and just about anything else you care to mention . |
| 27 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 28 | The most popular ethnic cuisines are Chinese , Italian , Mexican and Japanese , and just about the only restaurants you wo n't find in any great number are Indian . |
| 29 | Many did flee , taking their skills of war with them to Germany , France , Russia , and just about everywhere else . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if I do play girls in their twenties , and just about get away with it . ’ |