Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] about [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 80 species of birds worldwide have dispensed with the bothersome business of raising their own young and only about 50 of these are cuckoos of one sort or another . |
| 2 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 3 | South of the Azores , but only about 100 to 150 kilometres from the African coast are the Canary Islands , also volcanic , and also the scene of recent eruptions . |
| 4 | The number of representations to the Home Office is running at 700 to 800 a year , but only about five of those cases are referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 5 | A majority of local authorities had taken care programming into account in writing their 1992/93 community care plans , but only about half of these planned any significant changes to accommodate its requirements . |