Example sentences of "great [conj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team found that this salt is a superconductor at temperatures lower than 2 K , and pressures greater than about 4000 atm . |
| 2 | If relatively large pieces of tissue are to be transferred , requiring an internal diameter greater than about 35 μm , it is useful to have a bevelled end to the pipette . |
| 3 | Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock . |
| 4 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 5 | At depths greater than about 100 km the wave speeds are rather uncertain . |
| 6 | At latitudes greater than about 40° the banding is less clear , and in the polar regions it is replaced by smaller-scale cellular features . |
| 7 | He showed that the value of B for short tubes exceeded that for long ones by as much as 15 per cent and that for l/d greater than about 10 the values of B were independent of length . |
| 8 | As long as the specimen has an accessible surface that is greater than about 2 cm in diameter and is unattacked by a suitable coupling liquid , the method will yield all the moduli together with Poisson 's ratio in five minutes plus the time taken to do the required calculations . |