Example sentences of "[det] than about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 2 | He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence . |
| 3 | Thus wild plants are probably lucky to turn more than about one per cent of the solar energy that bathes them , into organic molecules ; and even agricultural crops , bred for efficiency and well fed , are unlikely to get above five per cent . |
| 4 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 5 | Pillar roses are in the main simply less vigorous ramblers — climbers and climbing sports are sometimes included — that normally do not reach more than about 9–10ft ( 2.7–3m ) in height or cane length . |
| 6 | But if there are more than about 12–15 words in the unclassifiable group , and your children are older than 9 , then look again more carefully , because you have probably put words there that ought to be in a different category . |
| 7 | I was never more than about halfway up the class . |
| 8 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 9 | But unfortunately , you ca n't use more than about , probably five hundred K. Nearly a thousand K , but probably about five hundred K on its standard memory . |
| 10 | ‘ Now this should n't take more than about an hour-and-a-half … ’ |
| 11 | Most random files start this way and most never get more than about 3/4 full . |
| 12 | Cos I would n't lo I mean I actually do n't think you can do , if you 're gon na do people are gon na eat I th I think you 're gon na be pushed at more than about hundred and fifty to two hundred . |
| 13 | Is there an amplifier already on the market ( for less than about a grand ) that would offer all three sounds ? |
| 14 | If however the adhesive strength of the interface is less than about one-fifth of the general cohesive strength of the solid then the interface will be broken before the main crack reaches it and a crack trap or crack stopper has been created . |
| 15 | Second , never do it in type of less than about 10-point ; and even this is really too small in newspapers . |