Example sentences of "[verb] about [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1913 the United States was producing about one-third of the total manufacturing output of the whole world : this was as much as Great Britain , France and Germany together . |
| 2 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 3 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 4 | Drink and football are linked by such a strong umbilical cord in Scottish culture that it is virtually impossible to talk about one without the other encroaching . |
| 5 | Type 1 diabetes affects about 1 in every 300 children . |
| 6 | The largest group of Soviet nationalities were the Slavs — Russians , Ukrainians and Belorussians — who shared a common linguistic and religious inheritance and together constituted about two-thirds of the total population . |
| 7 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 8 | Hence it took about two-thirds of the total period since the origin of life to reach the eukaryote stage . |
| 9 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 10 | Schools threatened with closure or with the loss of their sixth forms are among the most likely to seriously consider opting out , and the Grammar School Association expects about one-third of the remaining 150 grammar schools to opt out . |
| 11 | And I said to dad I said , It 's a good job they were n't talking about one of the other staff or anything or about Mark or anything . |
| 12 | Rosa Maria Malet , Director of the Fundación Miró in Barcelona , declared : ‘ We are talking about one of the best collections of Mirós in the world , and even if some periods are not very well represented there are some works of very great importance in the evolution of the painter 's oeuvre ’ . |
| 13 | We are talking about one of the most upscale markets in the country . |
| 14 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 15 | Let's consider first of all the quantitative ground , erm and let's talk about one of the major transitions , one of the major origins about which we have some information , and that is the origin of the mammals from the reptiles. erm we have quite a lot of fossils erm erm from the permian up to the triassic erm of mammals and their reptilian ancestors , and we know pretty well what went on . |
| 16 | Erm I 'll talk about one of the later models , which was Gibson 's , E Gibson as opposed to J J , which again was concerned with letters and whether or not we construct letters by recognising features from them . |