Example sentences of "are about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its members live in a constant state of irritation that their salaries are about a third of what ‘ yuppiewhite ’ expats make . |
| 2 | There are about a dozen kinds of gibbon , all from South-East Asia . |
| 3 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 4 | Put another way , for every human being alive , there are about a million insects — and together these insects would weigh about twelve times as much as he does . |
| 5 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 6 | There is a parochial school in Bowmore , a parliamentary school in Kilmeny parish , two Gaelic Society schools and a female school near Bridgend , There are about a dozen adventure schools , not generally taught throughout the summer and generally inefficient . |
| 7 | In later correspondence with the Board of Education , stretching over several years , it was pointed out that " in 1899 there were 243 deaf principals and teachers in the USA , while there are about a dozen in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 8 | There are about a dozen deer grazing . " |
| 9 | In a world ranking of premature death before the age of 60 , Northern Ireland and Scotland are near the top and England and Wales are about a third of the way down . |
| 10 | There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell . |
| 11 | Both of these corpora are about a million words in size and are derived from a variety of domains . |
| 12 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |