Example sentences of "to about [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquisition will result in an as yet undetermined number of lay-offs because Hewlett-Packard is planning to offer jobs to about 450 of the 1,600 employees in the worldwide Computer Systems & Services business , primarily employees currently in field and customer services functions . |
| 2 | Mortality of the babies of aristocrats fell from about 160 to about 100 at the same time . |
| 3 | Yet , although the number of officials for every 2,000 head of population rose from one in the 1750s to about four in the 1850s , the proportion was still incomparably lower than that prevailing in the West . |
| 4 | The numbers recorded each winter are very variable , ranging since 1947 , for example , from three in the winter of 1960/61 to about 1,670 in the winter of 1962/63 . |
| 5 | Cross-drill on the mark , to about three-quarters of the total thickness , or right through . |
| 6 | Decrease the size of the sweet dessert to about three-quarters of the usual amount . |
| 7 | ‘ We currently have a 150 strong database of local suppliers but hopefully this will grow to about 500 by the end of the year . ’ |
| 8 | In the parishes studied by Wrigley and Schofield , IMR declined from about 160 in the first half to about 130 in the latter half of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 10 | The Bikin river area is also home to about 40 of the 250 remaining Siberian tigers , regarded as sacred by the Udege . |
| 11 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |
| 12 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 13 | It seems that in Edinburgh the ETS grew from an average of 265 members in the late 1850s to about 650 in the late 18605,6 In Edinburgh , as in the other towns , the membership consisted of compositors and press- or machinemen , side by side , within the same branch . |
| 14 | The site 's workforce has been cut from 1,600 to about 1,000 over the past three years . |