Example sentences of "[vb pp] about 30 " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A ‘ Superlite ’ Holter monitor ( Mortara-Cardiodata , USA ) was connected about 30 minutes before gastroscopy and the cardiac recording commenced . |
| 4 | 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 … ’ |
| 5 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 6 | The police said that a telephone warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion but the caller had been " deliberately misleading " about the location of the bomb . |
| 7 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 8 | There 's a woman nearby I 've known about 30 years who rescues cats and we agree there are less unwanted cats about . ’ |
| 9 | On Aug. 1-2 the security forces arrested about 30 presumed members of the Armed Islamic Movement , along with explosives , in the area of al-Oued , near the Sahara . |
| 10 | Standard Life run about 30 one-day courses each year , which are held in hotels throughout the UK . |
| 11 | It was in 1929 , aged about 30 , that Winterbotham came to the momentous realisation , worthy of Bertie Wooster , that ‘ I should have to get a job ’ . |
| 12 | The unidentified man , aged about 30 , was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary after being found by a motorist near Bridlington , Humberside . |
| 13 | After five years , and aged about 30 , he was appointed programme manager for all foreign engine maintenance contracts . |
| 14 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 15 | Manager David Waring said : ‘ We are still assessing the damage and what was taken but we think we 've lost about 30 garments worth about £2,500 . ’ |
| 16 | Floods on the following weekend , June 6-7 , killed about 30 people in the town . |
| 17 | If we net out rates and the rebate on rates in 1988 , the poorest fifth paid about 30 per cent of their adjusted income in taxes . |