Example sentences of "only about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 2 | Whereas only about a third of local residents paid full rates , most adults will pay the charge . |
| 3 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 4 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 5 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 6 | Of all the letters sent out each year inquiring , disingenuously , whether ‘ this mark of the Queen 's favour ’ would be acceptable ; only about a dozen get a negative reaction . |
| 7 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 8 | Mr Bob Wybrow of Gallup reckons that year by year only about a tenth of his own time is occupied with politics , and ‘ about two per cent of the organisation 's time ’ , though of course this doubles in an election year . |
| 9 | Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK . |
| 10 | I could n't really cope with this separation , despite that fact that we live only about a minute from the SCBU . |
| 11 | Up until the beginning of the 1950s , only about a hundred Rottweilers were registered with the AKC . |
| 12 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport estimates that before belts were compulsory , only about a third of people in the front seats of cars wore them . |
| 14 | He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas . |
| 15 | Full student maintenance grants are now frozen at between £1,795 and £2,845 , but , only about a quarter of students actually receive the full award . |
| 16 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 17 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 18 | But only about a quarter of goods are imported , so a ten per cent devaluation would add 2.5 per cent to the cost of living . |
| 19 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 20 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
| 21 | The photochemical replacement time for O 3 is of the order of several months in the tropical lower stratosphere compared to only about a week in the mid-stratosphere . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Delta is a short-period pulsating variable , and the prototype of its class , but as the range is only about a tenth of a magnitude it need not concern us here . |
| 24 | Was n't that the trial where only about a quarter of the patients were actually randomised ? |
| 25 | At the beginning of the century only about a third of the population lived in towns . |
| 26 | Calvin Hall 's large survey of dream content showed that only about a third of the total number of dreams reported contained references to colour . |
| 27 | By 1913–14 , over £25,000 was being given away in this manner and in return the Central Office agents were able to ensure the appointment of suitable constituency agents and the choice of good candidate The outlay constituted only about a tenth of the whole of the local parties " expenditure , but a much higher proportion of the expenditure of the backward parties most in need of reform . |
| 28 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 29 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |
| 30 | About half British trade was with the Commonwealth and Sterling Area ( countries trading in British currency ) whereas only about a quarter was with Europe . |