Example sentences of "[that] about a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 2 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 3 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 4 | Attempts that have been made to check the ‘ honesty ’ of respondents have indicated that about a quarter of respondents are liable to conceal information . |
| 5 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 6 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 7 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 8 | Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses . |