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About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape the sinking submarine, and Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, ordered the surviving sailors to be summarily executed after they boarded the Nicosian.
About a dozen other adverbs are bare roots, such as nun " now ", tro " too, too much ", not counting the adverbs among the correlatives.
About two dozen variants have been found, including Crackatouw, Cracatoa, and Krakatao ( in an older Portuguese-based spelling ).
About a dozen were design patents, which protect an ornamental design for up to a 14-year period.
About a dozen people made significant contributions.
Quote, p. 192: " About a dozen stars in all were studied, and yielded values 1. 98 ± 0. 11 " and 1. 61 ± 0. 31 ", in substantial agreement with Einstein's prediction θ < sub >☉</ sub > = 1. 75 ".
About a dozen of the U-boat sailors survived and swam towards the merchant ship.
About a half dozen of these plants are located in the county.
About a dozen inscriptions in his honour have been recovered, mainly from eastern Gaul, with a particular concentration among the Vangiones ( a Rhenish tribe ).
About a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays were written under the name of Gordon Daviot.
About 1846 there were a dozen houses in the place and it was called Richfield.
About two dozen bronze statues — each perhaps four feet tall — of characters and scenes from Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999 were erected in the downtown area of Tsuruga in 1999.
About a dozen states decided to deregulate but some pulled back following the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001.
Nearly two dozen other books followed ; described by Stan as " cartoon essays ," the titles included Marital Blitz, How To Teach Your Children About Sex Without Making A Complete Fool of Yourself and Have A Baby, My Wife Just Had A Cigar!
About a dozen of the defecting students transferred to the Levoča Lutheran gymnasium.
About one dozen subspecies are today considered valid ; several more have been described which are now considered junior synonyms.
About a dozen wagon-burials of four wheeled wagons with bronze fittings are known from the early Urnfield period.
About a dozen Walloon magazines publish regularly.
About half a dozen dissertations and a dozen master's theses have been written about the community, as well.
About 150 Cougar ( Puma concolor ) sightings are reported per year, despite the fact that there are only a total of two dozen Cougars.
About two dozen Commerson's dolphins live in aquariums in the world, including SeaWorld San Diego, Aquatica in Florida, Zoo Duisburg in Germany ( until 2004 ), and several aquariums in Japan.
About a dozen existing Pentecostal bodies can trace their Pentecostal heritage directly or at least in part to Gaston B. Cashwell, including:

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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 90 percent of the corn used in the United States is fed to animals.
About 300 people were dedicated to the care of the animals.
About 18 % of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals.
Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.
About one in eight animals are problematic forms of uncertain affinity, some of which may have been evolutionary experiments that survived for only a brief period as benthic environments rapidly changed in the Cambrian.
About 40 species have been described from different animals, but many of them are probably synonyms.
About 10 % of a shrew's mass is in its brain, which is the highest brain to body mass ratio of all animals ( including humans ).
About one third of the animals are native to Mexico.
About this time, an operator could ride behind animals that pulled the large machines.
About 200 soldiers pursued the Indians in a running 15 mile fight, attempting unsuccessfully to recover the animals and suffering two men killed and three wounded.
About 45 kilometres of the Yarrowitch to Wauchope section is unfenced and livestock ( cattle ) may be encountered there, along with other wild animals on most of the highway.
About 15 – 20 days after hatching, the animals reaches the postlarva stage ; in the second postlarval stage, at a length of, they begin to enter estuaries and drop down to the substrate.
About 70-90, 000 animals are taken from this population off the coast of Greenland.
About 80 per cent of the animals depastured on the New Forest are owned by just 10 per cent of the commoning families.
About 10 % of the island is under the control of the DOC, which tries to keep the protected areas free of invasive pests and animals such as dogs.
About three months into the internship, the two Heralds, their Companions, and their pack animals are trapped by a severe winter storm in a Waystation located in the Forest of Sorrows.
Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó ( What It's All About ), Josep Maria Benet i Jornet ( Actresses, Amic / Amat ), Sergi Belbel ( Caresses, To Die ( or not )), Lluís-Anton Baulenas ( Anita Takes a Chance, Idiot Love ), Jordi Puntí ( Wounded animals ), Ferran Torrent ( Life on the edge ) and Lluïsa Cunillé ( Barcelona ( a map )).
About 90 of the park's animals are in the Safari Village, which includes a petting zoo, restrooms, a restaurant, a playground, and gift shop.
In 2002, he presented a light-hearted documentary on the UK's Channel 4 called The Truth About Gay Animals which examined the subject of homosexuality in animals.

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