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About 20 percent of the troopers had been enlisted in the prior seven months ( 139 of an enlisted roll of 718 ), were only marginally trained, and had no combat or frontier experience.
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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 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.
About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.
About 90 percent of the corn used in the United States is fed to animals.
About 33 percent of all plant matter is cellulose.
About 2 percent were denied admission to the U. S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as having a chronic contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.
About 48 % of EU citizens tend to trust the European Parliament, and about 36 percent do not tend to trust it.
About eight percent of Canada ’ s forest is legally protected from resource development ( Global Forest Watch Canada )( Natural Resources Canada ).
About 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have unpaired voiced fricatives, i. e., a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart.
About 58 percent of Ghana's population in 1984 was either under the age of twenty or above sixty-five.
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.
About 44 percent of the government's fiscal shortfall was financed through cash from foreign sources.
About 73 percent of Japan's area is mountainous, and scattered plains and intermontane basins ( in which the population is concentrated ) cover only about 25 percent.
About 78 percent choose a midwife ( 8 percent GP, 8 percent Obstetrician, 6 percent unknown .).
About 75 percent of the student body is composed of equal representation from the land, air, and sea ( including Marine and Coast Guard ) Services.
About 95 percent of Paraguay's population resides in the Paraneña region, which has all the significant orographic features and a more predictable climate.
About 30 percent of the Paraneña region is flooded from time to time, creating extensive areas of seasonal marshlands.
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About this man we had to think twice.
About 100 of the most important items he had already given to the museum.
Shakespeare had a word for everything, even for the rain that disrupted Wednesday night's `` Much Ado About Nothing '' opening the season of free theatre in Central Park.
About this time people began `` dropping in '', considering that the newly married had been left alone long enough.
About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.
About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam.
About this time Wills purchased and performed with an old Guadagnini violin that had once fetched $ 7, 600 for $ 1, 600, the equivalent of about $ 24, 000 in 2009.
About 100, 000 Comorians live in France ; many of them had gone there for a university education and never returned.
About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.
About 1. 5 million immigrants had been processed at the first building during its five years of use.
About 1841 he had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmøre ; his first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmøre dialect ( 1843 ).
About the same time he was sent for by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, to be minister of the French church at Berlin ; the electoral summons found Abbadie at Paris, and it was conveyed through the Count d ' Espense, who had been commissioned by his master to make the selection.
About one in ten people think they have had an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.
About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to Francia, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paul successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive.
About half of the residents had fled the city, including President George Washington.
About 30, 000 refugees, mainly Malaitans, had to leave their homes, and economic activity on Guadalcanal was severely disrupted.
" About six years before this story appeared, two houses on the street had been torn down to allow access to the ruins of the Thermes de Cluny.
It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.
About 500 Russian students had been sent to USA to participate in 40-day workshops of and by the Unification Church.
About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor, and the volcanoes that fringed its edges.
On August 8, 2012, reports surfaced that Answers. com had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire About. com for $ 270 million.
About four months prior to his death, Prinze had signed a multi-year deal with NBC worth US $ 6 million over five years.
About the inhabitants of the Nomuka islands ( in the Ha ' apai island group of present-day Tonga ), he wrote that their languages, vehicles, weapons, furniture, clothes, tattoos, style of beard, in short all of their being matched perfectly with what he had already seen while studying tribes on Tongatapu.
The commercial station ITV had popular successes with Rising Damp ( 1974 – 78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms ), Man About the House ( 1973 – 76 ) and George and Mildred ( 1976 – 79 ).
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