Example sentences of "[verb] about 30 " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medium edition , which is available in various languages , contains about 30 per cent of the total tables . |
| 2 | In the vegetable cell these cellulose molecules form very long , more or less crystalline , threads or fibrillae which are about 150–200 Å thick , say about 30 to 40 molecules wide . |
| 3 | The largest store of freshwater is in glaciers and icecaps — particularly in Antarctica — which holds about 30 million cubic kilometres of water as ice . |
| 4 | The small crystals melt about 30 K lower than the large ones due to the greater contribution from the interfacial free energy in the smaller crystallites , i.e. there is an excess of free energy associated with the disordered chains emerging from the ends of ordered crystallites and this is relatively greater for the small crystallites , resulting in lower melting temperatures . |
| 5 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 6 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 7 | From a take of about 100 usable pictures , his agency — Magnum Photos with offices in Paris , New York , London and Hamburg — selected about 30 subjects for distribution to the magazine press world-wide . |
| 8 | The creation of artificial waters does much to replace this loss , and five of the 12 sites in the table are gravel pits or reservoirs and support about 30 per cent . |
| 9 | The Government is yet to announce the number of councils it intends to introduce though present thinking favours about 30 . |
| 10 | The WHO estimated that reported cases of cholera worldwide had risen about 30 per cent in 1990 to almost 70,000 , even before the outbreak in South America . |
| 11 | Fills about 30 |
| 12 | Fills about 30 |
| 13 | Vitruvius , writing about 30 BC , described a number of types . |
| 14 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 15 | A ‘ Superlite ’ Holter monitor ( Mortara-Cardiodata , USA ) was connected about 30 minutes before gastroscopy and the cardiac recording commenced . |
| 16 | During its six-year life the Metrobus has established a significant position in the UK double-decker market , capturing about 30 per cent of all sales in each year between 1983 and 1986 and earning the reputation of a mobile road block among motorists in the congested capital since a driver-only policy was introduced by London Transport . |
| 17 | 6. if predated dog-whelk shells are available and you can collect about 30 specimens . |
| 18 | Consequently , companies from the old colonial powers of Britain and France continue to own about 30 per cent of the stock of foreign investments , with the USA and Japan owning another 50 per cent . |
| 19 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 20 | The Spiny Eel , Macrognathus aculeatus , is found in S.E. Asia , and reaches about 30 cm . |
| 21 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 22 | All craft students will spend about 30 hours a year in the Chinese cookery centre , which is sponsored by British Gas ( Eastern ) and Far East Industries . |
| 23 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 24 | It is well known that any such sheet of water will attract birds , and these reservoirs ' main importance is for the wintering wildfowl Table VI ( p. 33 ) gives an indication of the ornithological importance of the four major reservoirs which attract about 30 per cent . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that in this way US soybean plantations leak about 30 billion cubic metres of hydrogen annually . |
| 26 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |
| 27 | This followed about 30 ETA-linked arrests in the Basque region the previous week and a statement by ETA on Feb. 3 to the effect that violence would continue as long as the Basque region " continues to be denied its political , social and cultural rights " . |
| 28 | It takes about 30 years from planting for a tree to grow enough bark to be harvested . |
| 29 | The speed of separation — the solution only takes about 30 seconds to move through the outer tube — also prevents too much heating . |
| 30 | ‘ We will give franchisees all the training in selling and fitting them — it takes about 30 minutes to install one — but we find many people are keen on DIY and would want to do their own . ’ |