Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone was interviewed about 639 of the deaths , 80 per cent of the original sample of 800 . |
| 2 | In pursuit of the action Campbell had caught about 80 of the creatures on a piece of sticky tape and then forwarded them to a zoologist . |
| 3 | The controversy centres on the assumptions made about two of the terms , V and Q : whether and how they are affected by changes in the money supply ( M ) . |
| 4 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 5 | On 14 October 1661 Rose was appointed the king 's gardener at St James 's — that is , the man in charge of establishing a garden between the Mall and the backs of houses in Pall Mall , a garden disturbed about 1709 for the building of Marlborough House and Carlton House . |
| 6 | Maxim knew he 'd had about 650 in the wallet . |
| 7 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 8 | I 've , I 've got about four in the bottom of the fridge . |
| 9 | You probably had one like that , I 've got about twenty in the c drawer at home . |
| 10 | Thus the Restart variable has , since 1986 , contributed about 750,000 to the fall in unemployment . ’ |
| 11 | The old-fashioned bottle , shaped to take a cork ( figure 7.3a ) was replaced about 1900 by the bottle ( still hand-made ) provided with a rim for a metal cap ( figure 7.3b ) In the 1920s the bottles became machine-made and there was a progressive " takeover " by the beer can with soldered edges and an unfossilisable paper label ( figure 7.3c ) . |
| 12 | A man aged about 50 in the second car also suffered minor injuries and shock . |