Example sentences of "at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Biemiller 's classic research ( 1970 ) into the " development of the use of graphic and contextual information as children learn to read " isolated a plateau at about 8–9 years when children were shown to over-use the grapho-phonemic level . |
| 2 | A Berlin police spokesperson on June 11 estimated membership in eastern Germany of radical right-wing organizations at about 1,500-2,000 and supporters at about 30,000 . |
| 3 | P.S. wil be there at about 12.00–12.30 |
| 4 | She puts the figure at about one million . |
| 5 | If you start using large quantities of alcohol it can be purchased in 10 litre amounts ( min. order ) from Hayman Ltd , Witham , Essex ( tel. 0376 517 517 ) at about one third of the pharmacy price . |
| 6 | PAT officials say the number of cases has shot up dramatically in recent months , and is now running at about one case each week . |
| 7 | At about one am on Advent Sunday morning , I had a bad asthmatic attack . |
| 8 | Add rock salt ( not table salt ) to the water , at about one ounce to a gallon . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's fine , Chris , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll see you at about one thirty tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |
| 11 | After 1855 his grip on the business slackened ; in 1864 , when the partnership was converted into a joint-stock company with industrial assets valued at about one million pounds , Vaughan became deputy chairman of Bolckow , Vaughan & Co . |
| 12 | If life could be as readily organized as statistics can , then the additional staff would be spread fairly evenly at about one teacher for each of the 200 schools for the maladjusted . |
| 13 | At about one o'clock in the morning the lightning came . |
| 14 | P&G advertising revenue at about one million dollars a year . |
| 15 | If the economically active population of Europe is set at about one third of the total ( very conservative ! ) , this means about 110 million people . |
| 16 | Erm yeah I 've had a bit of a look at it but my eyes glazed over at about one thirty . |
| 17 | I will be in touch when I know where I 'm at about all this . |
| 18 | The underlying prominence was found to have disappeared , but subsequent observations on 25 and 26 January showed the newly formed X-ray feature rising at about 1 km . |
| 19 | At about 1 a.m. word passed through the encampment that we would not be boarding until the morning . |
| 20 | If the average density of the sediment is 2000 kg/m3 , the average rate works out at about 1 cm per thousand years . |
| 21 | The coach would leave the Dersingham Arms at about 1 pm . |
| 22 | A report on the economic outlook for Germany , published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) on July 5 , was optimistic about the prospects for the unified German economy , forecasting growth rates of 4 per cent for 1990 and 3@1/2 per cent for 1991 , with the additional costs of unification estimated at about 1 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , a level which the report regarded as manageable without significant tax increases , though the report did warn that wage increases in East Germany could eliminate jobs . |
| 23 | In our current work , however , we run somewhat slower at about 1 frame/2 secs . |
| 24 | People in the square outside the museum panicked and ran when the bomb exploded at about 1 pm , shortly before the afternoon rush hour . |
| 25 | Francis Bacon , writing in 1627 said ‘ The Turks have a pretty art of chambletting paper which is not in use with us ’ , though , in fact , it did reach this country at about that date . |
| 26 | Within a generally low level , there were short-run increases in listening hours , from 7.5 per week in 1966 to 9.2 in 1972 , for instance , and the amount stayed at about that level . |
| 27 | begin at about 5–8 years old as ‘ trappers ’ , & girls earlier than boys , as they were thought to mature earlier . |
| 28 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 29 | A Russian television interview with both Gerashchenko and acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar on Aug. 9 implied that the credit issued to enterprises would stand at about 350,000-400,000 million roubles . |
| 30 | and then I had another one at half past eight , that was three , I had another pint at about another three more |