Example sentences of "only about [num] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth . |
| 2 | In fact , only about 52 of the 291 patients in the British pre-marketing clinical trials were over 65 , and the comparable American figures were 86 out of 277 . |
| 3 | Penny saw only about 80 of the 1,400 prisoners held at Omarska . |
| 4 | Only about 2,000 of the 23,000 companies in America that have annual sales of $35m or more can hope to issue debt that wins an investment-grade rating . |
| 5 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 6 | Only about seven of the buggers |
| 7 | An article in the weekly Die Zeit urging a more liberal citizenship law said only about 1,000 of the 1.8 million Turks in Germany are naturalised each year under complicated rules . |
| 8 | Given a 50–60 per cent annual mortality , only about 1400 of the immature males survive to join the breeding population ; the annual mortality of females is slightly higher than in males , probably because of the physiological stress of producing eggs . |