Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 2 | As for education , Dr Spufford showed that about a fifth of Cambridgeshire 's villages and minor market towns had a schoolmaster licensed continuously between 1570 and 1620 . |
| 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 | A survey by the US Department of Labor revealed that about a fifth of private-sector workers , mainly employees of large corporations , are already subject to testing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Opinion polls suggested that about a third of the 8,400,000 people who had been issued vouchers intended to place them with funds set up by banks or private financial groups . |