Example sentences of "[that] about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From her Mexican study , Eckstein reports that about 38 per cent of the men with factory and white-collar jobs said they obtained their work through a personal acquaintance ( Eckstein 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Bradshaw and Millar ( 1991 ) found that about 17 per cent of the single mothers in their sample had lived with their former partners before becoming a lone parent . |
| 3 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 4 | After the Paris meeting it was announced that about 85 per cent of this amount had been pledged , with donors promising $300,000,000 in debt relief and between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 in grants and loans , mainly to finance imports required for the economic recovery programme . |
| 5 | It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the union 's members in Hackney and Tower Hamlets voted in the ballot , supported officially by NUT national leaders . |
| 6 | The German Foreign Ministry called for a fairer distribution of the burden of aid to the CIS , citing figures produced by the European Commission which showed that about 75 per cent of all aid to the Soviet Union since September 1990 had come from the EC and 57 per cent from Germany alone ( the figure included humanitarian aid , credits and special payments for troop withdrawal made by Germany ) . |
| 7 | On the basis of the present issue of statements this would mean that about two per cent of the child population are judged as likely to fall outside the provision of the 1988 Act . |
| 8 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 9 | Overall it seems likely that about 10 per cent of the population aged 65 + experiences depressive illness of clinical significance ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 10 | The preliminary findings of an EC report on air pollution in Europe have concluded that about 10 per cent of the European Community 's forests have been damaged by sulphur emissions . |
| 11 | Indications of the likely proportions come from studies in two Dutch towns and in Berlin , which show some 20 per cent of injury-related accidents in built-up areas occurring on typical residential streets , and from OECD members who report that about thirty per cent of urban accidents occur on non-arterial roads . |
| 12 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | He indicated that about 80 per cent of the additional oil would come from stockpiles and the balance from measures to reduce demand . |
| 14 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 15 | The polls show that about 70 per cent of American troops do not want to risk the lives of American troops to achieve such goals . |
| 16 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 17 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 18 | When these figures are compared with the amounts of net personal income paid in the same period , it can be seen ( column ( 4 ) ) that about 40 per cent of net personal income in these three regions was financed out of net dissaving ( or losses ) . |
| 19 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 20 | ( 1982 ) estimate that about 40 per cent of all carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere remains there to enhance the greenhouse effect . |
| 21 | Du Plessis announced that about 40 per cent of the budget would go on social services , with health education receiving substantial increases . |
| 22 | Du Plessis announced that about 40 per cent of the budget would go on social services [ see p. 37568 ] . |
| 23 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 24 | Using that indicator , it seems that about ten per cent of the people in each income group have heavy credit commitments . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that about three per cent of all calls in busy TMAs result in conflicting transmissions . |
| 26 | It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school . |
| 27 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) in their study of middle-class families , found that about 15 per cent of parent-child relationships were ‘ bad ’ ( as perceived by the child and measured by items such as little or no contact , clear dislike from one party to the other ) and about one third of those examples of ‘ bad ’ relationships concerned mothers and daughters . |
| 28 | A spokesman for National Power said that about 15 per cent of British coal had an even higher sulphur content than orimulsion . |
| 29 | The housing deficit in Mexico is about 4 million units , which means that about 30 per cent of the population is in need of housing ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Swift-Hook estimated that about 30 per cent of the CEGB 's researchers were then working on Pressurized Water Reactors . |