Example sentences of "[adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 2 | Ian and I worked together about a year ago when I did a locum in the practice where he was an assistant . ’ |
| 3 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 4 | Yes and er we used to have about two hundred three hundred birds on the for the shooting and then perhaps about a hundred and fifty or so or something like that on the second . |
| 5 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 6 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 7 | Everyone will have to buy one of these machines and erm at the moment we might have to pay perhaps about a hundred pounds , but perhaps later these will become very , very cheap indeed and just will become part of the television set . |
| 8 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 9 | Whereas only about a third of local residents paid full rates , most adults will pay the charge . |
| 10 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 11 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 12 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 13 | Of all the letters sent out each year inquiring , disingenuously , whether ‘ this mark of the Queen 's favour ’ would be acceptable ; only about a dozen get a negative reaction . |
| 14 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 15 | Mr Bob Wybrow of Gallup reckons that year by year only about a tenth of his own time is occupied with politics , and ‘ about two per cent of the organisation 's time ’ , though of course this doubles in an election year . |
| 16 | Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK . |
| 17 | I could n't really cope with this separation , despite that fact that we live only about a minute from the SCBU . |
| 18 | Up until the beginning of the 1950s , only about a hundred Rottweilers were registered with the AKC . |
| 19 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 20 | The Department of Transport estimates that before belts were compulsory , only about a third of people in the front seats of cars wore them . |
| 21 | He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas . |
| 22 | Full student maintenance grants are now frozen at between £1,795 and £2,845 , but , only about a quarter of students actually receive the full award . |
| 23 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 24 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 25 | But only about a quarter of goods are imported , so a ten per cent devaluation would add 2.5 per cent to the cost of living . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 27 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
| 28 | The photochemical replacement time for O 3 is of the order of several months in the tropical lower stratosphere compared to only about a week in the mid-stratosphere . |
| 29 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 30 | Delta is a short-period pulsating variable , and the prototype of its class , but as the range is only about a tenth of a magnitude it need not concern us here . |