Example sentences of "[that] [adv] about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 7 | This showed that deaf school-leavers , educated orally , had an average reading age of eight and three quarters and that only about ten per cent of their speech was intelligible to a hearing person . |
| 8 | Even so a loose diplomatic understanding survived after a fashion , while British opinion polls in 1967 suggested that only about 25 per cent were firmly of the view that the government was too close to Washington . |
| 9 | ‘ Uptake of vaccine is very variable — one study showed that only about 49 per cent of GPs have had the vaccination , for example , even though the GP is just as much at risk as any other doctor . ’ |
| 10 | Prof Anderson said : ‘ We believe that initially about 90 per cent of sewage will be used for landfill and the rest for fertiliser , but these figures will be reversed as more farmers and forestry organisations make use of sludge . ’ |