About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

About 20 Orcadian broch sites include small settlements of stone buildings surrounding the main tower.

About 8. 3 % of families and 20. 0 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 4 % of those under age 18 and 7. 9 % of those age 65 or over.

About 20, 000 deaths are attributed to it each year.

About 20 years later, John Ambrose Fleming ( scientific adviser to the Marconi Company

About 23 % of all families and 48 % of all genera ( 20 % of marine families and 55 % of marine genera ) went extinct.

About 20 % of patients with epilepsy continue to have breakthrough epileptic seizures despite best anticonvulsant treatment.

About 20, 000 Jamaicans emigrate to the United States each year ; another 200, 000 visit annually.

About 15 %- 20 % of hospitalized Lassa fever patients will die from the illness.

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

About 13 % of Muslims live in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, 25 % in South Asia, 20 % in the Middle East, 2 % in Central Asia, 4 % in the remaining South East Asian countries, and 15 % in Sub-saharan Africa.

About 20 % of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20 % of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.

About 300 enemy launched a strong attack on 20 January 1763 putting the Nepalese still more on the defensive.

About 80 % of our daily water requirement comes from the beverages we drink, with the remaining 20 % coming from food.

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

About 16. 5 % of families and 20. 6 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 29. 0 % of those under age 18 and 15. 9 % of those age 65 or over.

About 15. 0 % of families and 20. 4 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 5 % of those under the age of 18 and 13. 5 % ages 65 or older.

About 20, 000 Malaitans fled to the capital and others returned to their home island ; Gwale residents of Honiara fled.

About 20, 000 Syrian soldiers were deployed in Lebanon until 27 April 2005, when the last of Syria's troops left the country.

About 20, 000 children received scholarships in the 2003-2004 school year.

One of the squatters said, " About 20 people have lived here over the years and it's been a place for band rehearsals, art projects, people practising dance routines, bike workshops.

About 20 million people died, many due to disease and famine.

About 8: 20 p. m., three white men entered the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be turned over to them.

About 20 percent of those who cohabited before getting engaged had since suggested splitting-compared with only 12 percent of those who only moved in together after getting engaged and 10 percent who did not cohabit prior to marriage.

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* About ASL – article at deaflibrary. org

Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660 – 1810, Yale University Press.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

* 1959 – Mark Price, English drummer ( All About Eve and Del Amitri )

* 1992: Pop Performance Female – " Baby Baby " ( lost to " Something to Talk About " by Bonnie Raitt )

About 120 – 130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then.

About 7, 000 Black and Tans served in Ireland in 1920 – 22.

About 8 – 15 days of snowfall per year is typical.

About 48 – 60 % of the GPP is consumed in plant respiration.

* 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( d. 1885 )

* 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.

* 1945 – World War II: About 3, 000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken ( now Yantarny, Russia ) and executed.

* 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

* 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( b. 1828 )

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About 25, 000 BP, displacement occurred along the Cadell fault, raising the eastern edge of the fault ( which runs north-south ) 8 – 12 metres above the floodplain.

About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney ( 1765 – 1825 ), James Watt ( 1736 – 1819 ), and Matthew Boulton ( 1728 – 1809 ) developed elements of technical production such as standardization, quality-control procedures, cost-accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work-planning.

About 60 % of morphine is converted to M3G, and 6 – 10 % is converted to M6G.