Example sentences of "[vb -s] to about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This corresponds to about three locks per hour , though not continuously , as the lift would only operate when there was traffic to move . |
| 2 | This figure is derived from national mortality statistics taken from death certificates and equates to about four asthma deaths per 100000 population per year . |
| 3 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 4 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 5 | The average female specimen grows to about 10 centimetres in length , and the male 3–4 centimetres longer . |
| 6 | The species that survives today , the pearly nautilus , grows to about 20 centimetres across . |
| 7 | For certain stations in the United States Langbein and Schumm ( 1958 ) have quantified this in terms of sediment yield and shown that this increases to about 300 tons per square km ( 800 tons per square mile ) with a rainfall of about 371 mm ( 15 in ) per year and then decreases as increasing vegetation cover protects the surface . |
| 8 | This action leads to about sixty misunderstandings a week . |
| 9 | The majority of the vineyards are located to the north and north-west of the village commencing half a kilometre north-west of Ambonnay itself , where the land rises to about 20 metres . |
| 10 | When the solar wind is strong the magnetopause retreats to about 50 R J upwind . |
| 11 | only goes to about five inches |
| 12 | The first evidence of its domestication dates to about 9,000 years ago , but there is also evidence that about 1,000 years earlier , in South-east Asia , the smaller Sulawesi warty pig S. celebensis was also domesticated . |
| 13 | The museum extends to about twenty rooms on two floors , and the visit starts with a room of ancient weaponry and then moves on to rooms that contain sacred parchments and vestments — some with designs from the school of Leonardo — and lace . |
| 14 | The show runs to about 600 entries and — giving the lie to the recession in the art trade — is crowded both with visitors and red stickers . |