Example sentences of "only about 30 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only about 30 warships out of 300 carried out an order to hoist the Russian flag on Wednesday before it was repealed yesterday . |
| 2 | Perhaps only about 30 per cent of jobs within UDG-supported schemes were new to the area , although of these , three-quarters were new to the national economy . |
| 3 | The numbers show that in Africa and in Latin America , excluding Chile , only about 17 per cent of targets for privatisation had actually been sold and in Asia only about 30 per cent . |
| 4 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 5 | As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined . |
| 6 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 7 | Progress was only about 30 ft. a month and the rate had been raised to £5 a fathom . |
| 8 | 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 . |