Example sentences of "only about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 2 | However , yesterday 's ruling means that only about 10 of those boats will be able to resume operations immediately . |
| 3 | Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly . |
| 4 | The quake hit relatively far from the city and it lasted only about 10 seconds ; there was no wind to spread fires ; and conditions were dry , making landslides less likely . |
| 5 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 6 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 7 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 8 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 9 | By 15 September there are only about 10 000 . |
| 10 | The total potential net pay exhibited by the Aabenraa patch reef is about 24 m whereas in the inter-reef area at Hønning , it is probably only about 10 m . |
| 11 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 12 | This gives the bird only about 10 seconds to make its escape from a wide bodied Boeing 747 . |
| 13 | And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’ |
| 14 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 15 | It seemed like an age but it was actually only about 10 seconds before I was able to move my arms and legs . |
| 16 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 17 | reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent . |
| 18 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 19 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 20 | Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII . |
| 21 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 22 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 23 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 24 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 25 | By 1980 only about 5 per cent seemed to be favourably disposed towards a return of the 1948 refugees , and this may have declined to 3 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 26 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 27 | Predation varies in its effects : when populations are at their peak , only about 5 per cent of small mammals are predated , while this can increase up to 50–88 per cent of the standing crop at low population levels ( Pearson , 1964 ; Southern & Lowe , 1982 ) . |
| 28 | For example , one research study cited by Mays ( 1983 ) suggested that only about 5 per cent of Asian elders live alone ( compared with 38 per cent of white old people ) ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Only about 5 per cent of those generations never married — a very low proportion for Europe ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 30 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |