Example sentences of "about a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it is about , about a thousand for one bay window so she 's had the whole house done so it 's probably nearer three . |
| 2 | So after a fortnight , thereabouts , the union had a meeting and decided that everybody in the industry like , which of course there was only about a thousand of us any way , everybody would s would stop until this man could start at work . |
| 3 | That 's what you want really , you want about a thousand of them now |
| 4 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 5 | or 2,000 MN/m 2 — about a thirtieth of what theory predicts — and most of the other synthetic polymers are not much stiffer . |
| 6 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 7 | There was about a hundred with thin Martin on the other hand . |
| 8 | And you 'd get a bucket with about a hundred in . |
| 9 | Textiles will have about a fifth of earnings . |
| 10 | Textiles will have about a fifth of earnings . |
| 11 | A survey by the US Department of Labor revealed that about a fifth of private-sector workers , mainly employees of large corporations , are already subject to testing . |
| 12 | About a fifth of us fall into the ‘ Get It Over With ’ category . |
| 13 | Armada is about a fifth of the size of the company 's biggest asset , the Morecambe field , which has a potential production capacity of 1.8 billion cubic feet a day . |
| 14 | When planned , the total output of these reactors was supposed to reach nearly 5,000 megawatts ( million watts ) at full capacity , about a fifth of the then total for all UK power stations . |
| 15 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 16 | In the first Whitehall study risk factors such as age , smoking , systolic blood pressure , height , and plasma cholesterol and blood glucose concentration accounted for about a fifth of the twofold to threefold grade differences in mortality from coronary heart disease . |
| 17 | About a fifth of written entries may have errors . |
| 18 | This is remarkable given that the … scheme makes up only about a fifth of the total legal aid budget . ’ |
| 19 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
| 20 | As for education , Dr Spufford showed that about a fifth of Cambridgeshire 's villages and minor market towns had a schoolmaster licensed continuously between 1570 and 1620 . |
| 21 | Dr Pamela Horn has estimated that about a fifth of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers who were recorded in the 1851 census were under the age of fifteen . |
| 22 | At Cotesbach in the same county , about thirty people , from five households , were evicted about 1501 , and the lands affected represented about a fifth of the manor . |
| 23 | The microwave combination 's ability to prime cook à la carte dishes in about a fifth of the usual time offers opportunities to introduce items on the menu which traditionally have meant advance ordering , for example , racks of lamb , beef Wellingtons , en croûte dishes and so on . |
| 24 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 25 | Total investment , which includes spending on all types of capital goods by firms , accounts for about a fifth of total expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Cov 's ground is undergoing building so the traditional away end is closed which left the away fans only about a 3rd of one stand . |
| 27 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 28 | you need about a million to four million down there |
| 29 | ‘ About a million of ‘ em . ’ |
| 30 | There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell . |