Example sentences of "consisted [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. LEAPOR 'S whole Library consisted of about sixteen or seventeen single Volumes , among which were Part of Mr. Pope 's Works , Dryden 's Fables , some Volumes of Plays , & c . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 4 | The former collection of Dr Paul Alexandre consisted of about 500 drawings . |
| 5 | Before long , the entire National Socialist League consisted of about twenty people . |
| 6 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Data Processing Department consisted of about 40 people of whom seven were concerned with Systems Design and Development . |
| 9 | In the early nineteen-sixties , each chip consisted of about ten electrical components , and was equivalent to one logic circuit . |