Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Li reckons that in each of her township 's 90 ‘ teams ’ ( each consisting of about 300 people ) two or three families have incomes like hers . |
| 2 | To take one example , at the beginning of the project seven committees were established , each consisting of about six people , to investigate one of a range of competing architectural possibilities . |
| 3 | In the past all Q.T 's received a training which was heavily subsidised by the Society — in to-day 's terms this amounted to about £200 per person for each year of training . |
| 4 | This corresponds to about three locks per hour , though not continuously , as the lift would only operate when there was traffic to move . |
| 5 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 6 | For certain stations in the United States Langbein and Schumm ( 1958 ) have quantified this in terms of sediment yield and shown that this increases to about 300 tons per square km ( 800 tons per square mile ) with a rainfall of about 371 mm ( 15 in ) per year and then decreases as increasing vegetation cover protects the surface . |
| 7 | This amounts to about eighty per cent of zoo animals in Britain . |
| 8 | This consisted of about thirty full-time civil servants , mainly drawn from the Department of the Environment but with secondees from the Departments of Industry and Employment . |
| 9 | This compares with about £560 million in 1970 , when bank credit cards had barely started . |
| 10 | This consists of about 40,000 slides , and a large ( and uncounted ) number of photographic negatives — modern and glass-plate — together with a number of plates . |
| 11 | This accounts for about 30 per cent of all deaths from cancer ; the second largest source of cancer mortality is lung cancer for men ( 33 per cent of all deaths ) and breast cancer for women ( 20 per cent ) of all cancer deaths . |
| 12 | Before the recession , staff utilisation levels were between 95% and 99% at any one time , but during the recession , this fell to about 90% . |
| 13 | Despite the limitations of a retrospective study and the heterogeneity of the tissue available for review , the present findings show that over 80% of antral tumours were associated with H pylori in the 1960s although this fell to about 40% in the 1980s . |
| 14 | Using the ancient method , the maximum zinc content was about 28 per cent , but as the process developed this increased to about 33 per cent . |
| 15 | Very often the day starts clear and bright in the mountains , and this continues until about 11 a.m. , when misty cloud develops between altitudes of 500m and 1,200m . |
| 16 | This continued until about 1939 when the ceremony passed into history . |
| 17 | When they just try to entertain , to be stompy dynamic pop punks with a snigger and a scream — and that amounts to about two and a half tracks tonight — they are briefly , brashly terrific . |
| 18 | Is he further aware that that amounts to about eight hundred and eighty thousand pounds per parliamentary constituency . |
| 19 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 20 | These survived until about 8000 years ago , when they were probably wiped out by the first human settlers . |
| 21 | These accounted for about 60 per cent of local jobs in 1981 , but only half that figure by 1987 . |
| 22 | This should be a general sharing of Christian Aid experiences in Scotland introduced by say , four persons , from Scotland each speaking for about ten minutes on a particular aspect of their experience . |
| 23 | That translates into about a dozen seats in parliament and would be enough to cost the government its overall majority . |
| 24 | We erm , we had n't got a lot of room for expansion down there , we were in , when I joined the department it was known as the Ipswich T Electric Supply and Transport Department and er we were in some buildings which were rented from the Electric Supply Department which housed the generators for the electricity , so we had n't got a lot of room for expansion there , I think we were all confined into about three offices . |
| 25 | I think that just slowed down , I think it was all done in about thirty seconds , they just slowed it down . |
| 26 | The latter vary from about 30 to 70 nm in diameter with cores that may be electron-dense or electron-transparent ( Boistel , 1968 ; Chiarodo , 1969 ; Chiarodo et at. , 1970 ; Schurmann , 1970 , 1972 ; and others ) . |
| 27 | He then made careful research into the reserve fuel lifted and found we all returned with about 23% of our fuel . |
| 28 | Intel Corp launched its first video add-in board for personal computer users running Microsoft Corp Windows : the Intel Smart Video Recorder enables users to play back video segments recorded from various video sources by using Intel 's Indeo video technology , and cost $700 — but the price includes software , including Microsoft 's Video for Windows , that lists for about $800 . |
| 29 | Jim Ogg , research and development officer with the Royal London Hospital care of the elderly department and Tower Hamlets SSD , has direct experience of the many ethical barriers researchers face when trying to obtain highly personal and sensitive information from those cared for about physical abuse . |
| 30 | For every letter they receive , they guess that that speaks for about 100 others who have not written . |