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.

About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.

About 5, 000 Reserve officers for the camps were affected, transferred to Civil Service and military ranks and titles were eliminated.

About fifty officers ’ commissions were given to Germans and Swiss, and none were allowed to rise above the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

About 90 police officers were killed between 1920 and 1922 in what would become Northern Ireland.

About 100 senior officers and some civilians " of good social standing ", mainly passengers on captured ships and the wives of some officers, were given parole d ' honneur outside the prison, mainly in Peterborough although some as far away as Northampton, Plymouth, Melrose and Abergavenny.

About a hundred Canadian exchange officers, on exchange to American units, participated in the invasion of Iraq.

He told Honjō the message “ About 500 officers and soldiers of the regiment, unable to restrain themselves any longer, have decided to take direct action ” and a note “ More forces would participate ”.

About 50 Indian civilians ( some of whom were officers ' servants who tried to defend or conceal their employers ) were also killed by the sepoys.

About 400 police officers ( an eighth of the total in Belfast ) were there to ensure that the children could get to school.

She pursued her favorite subject-the female experience-in a number of films, including Street Corner ( 1953 ) about women police officers, Somerset Maugham's The Beachcomber ( 1954 ), with Glynis Johns as a resourceful missionary, and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including The Passionate Stranger ( 1957 ), The Truth About Women ( 1958 ) and her final film, Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 ).

About 30 percent of the members of the staff were civilians, said to be selected usually from among close relatives of military officers.

About 50 fans clashed, resulting in two police officers getting injured and five fans being arrested.

About 100 soldiers and five officers were dispatched to the location at about 10 a. m.

About forty of the best mounted officers and men got far ahead of the main body of the force.

About 24, 000 officers, that is almost a quarter of police personnel, work within the Traffic Police ( Polizia Stradale ), Railroad Police ( Polizia Ferroviaria ), Postal and Telecommunications Police ( Polizia Postale e delle Telecomunicazioni ) and Border and Immigration Police.

About 3000 officers and their families escaped to Siam.

About 85 % of Kosovo Police officers are ethnic Albanians, 15 % are ethnic Serbs and other ethnic minorities.

About 1, 200 of them are directorate officers.

About a hundred Canadian exchange officers, on exchange to American units, participated in the invasion of Iraq.

About half the witnesses ' testimony concerned how Ferrar was aware of the crimes committed by his officers and friends, but failed to punish them.

About one-third of the Egyptian soldiers surrendered and were later freed, while all the officers were killed.