Example sentences of "[conj] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 2 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 3 | There must be something wrong with the Trebor technique because countless — or about a dozen — readers have sent in stories of their own triumphs with peppermints , sugar lumps , sticky tape and photographic film . |
| 4 | In all the chain there are less than ten square kilometres left of glacier , or about a fortieth of what there is in the Alps , though , after many years of shrinkage , the Pyrenean ice-fields are said to have spread themselves a little since 1950 . |
| 5 | In southern Italy and its islands about 600,000 hectares of trees — or about a third of the modest total still standing in those desiccated landscapes — disappeared between 1860 and 1911 . |
| 6 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 7 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 8 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 9 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 10 | ‘ They never seem to last more than about a week . ’ |
| 11 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 12 | Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour . |
| 13 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 14 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 17 | It is estimated that about a third of the population of Germany perished in the struggle . |
| 18 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 19 | Attempts that have been made to check the ‘ honesty ’ of respondents have indicated that about a quarter of respondents are liable to conceal information . |
| 20 | It is thought that about a third of conceptuses fail to develop into an embryo . |
| 21 | It is estimated that about a third of these accidents result from damaged pavements . |
| 22 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 23 | Research in Newcastle has shown that about a third of all children referred with psychiatric disorders also suffered from undiagnosed depression . |
| 24 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 25 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 26 | Opinion polls suggested that about a third of the 8,400,000 people who had been issued vouchers intended to place them with funds set up by banks or private financial groups . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 30 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |