About 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

About 85 million tons of wheat flour is used every year to bake bread.

About 80 % of the class of 2010 did research through the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships ( SURF ) program at least once during their stay, and many continued during the school year.

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

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

About 15, 000 men develop reactive arthritis due to chlamydia infection each year in the U. S., and about 5, 000 are permanently affected by it.

About the year 1900 many began to substitute Chalcolithic for Eneolithic to avoid the false segmentation.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

About a year later, Hilbert attended a banquet and was seated next to the new Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust.

About two million visitors attend every year.

About 30 weekends a year, he went out on his boat.

About the year 1337, hesychasm attracted the attention of a learned member of the Orthodox Church, Barlaam, a Calabrian monk who at that time held the office of abbot in the Monastery of St Saviour in Constantinople and who visited Mount Athos.

About 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, the Indian Plate began moving north at about 15 cm / year ( 6 in / yr ).

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

About 98 % of new CPUs produced each year are embedded.

About a year later, the Soviets recreated division-sized mechanized infantry units termed Mechanized Corps, usually consisting of one tank brigade and three mechanized infantry brigades, with motorized supporting arms.

" About a year after the Court's jurisdictional decision, the United States took the further, radical step of withdrawing its consent to the Court's compulsory jurisdiction, ending its previous 40 year legal commitment to binding international adjudication.

About 400 million metric tons of hazardous wastes are generated each year.

About a year later, after working diligently at his duties, he regained his former rank.

About 7 per 1000 people in the United States have a seizure in a given year.

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

About a year later, Twain kicked off the Up!

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

About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.

About 10 minutes before the end of Lewis Black's special " Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black " on the History Channel, Craig Ferguson described Hogmanay as follows:

About 80 armed Tamil mercenaries belonging to PLOTE landed on Malé before dawn aboard speedboats from a freighter.

About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.

About 1 trillion rubles ($ 42. 7 billion ) is to be allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015.

" 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.

Winning the " Oscar " also gave her another unique distinction — since she won two " Razzies " the day before, for her performance in All About Steve, she is the only performer ever to have been named both " Best " and " Worst " for the same year.

However, the slowdown of the Earth's rotation is not occurring fast enough for the rotation to lengthen to a month before other effects make this irrelevant: About 2. 1 billion years from now, the continual increase of the Sun's radiation will cause the Earth's oceans to vaporize, removing the bulk of the tidal friction and acceleration.

About half ( 52 %) reported a fire or explosion before the plane hit the ground.

About a century before the middle of the millennium, bands of Indo-European invaders came from the Central Asia plains and swept through the Near East.

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 1382 he headed an embassy from his university to Urban VI, before whom he delivered a dissertation in favour of reform.

About half the initial dosage is excreted after 6 hours, but some studies suggest that it is not metabolized at all before excretion.

Versions of Internet Explorer before version 7 stated " Based on NCSA Mosaic " in the About box.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

About 3 % of the alive female infants are expected to decease before they bear children, thus producing 100 women in the next generation.

About 6 % of cases start before the age of 21 years with an akinetic-rigid syndrome ; they progress faster and vary slightly.

About nine months before her death, Lopes appeared on the singers ' edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire along with Joey McIntyre, Tyrese, Nick Lachey, and Lee Ann Womack.

About 20 % of women who are carriers for the fragile X premutation are affected by fragile X-related primary ovarian insufficiency ( FXPOI ), which is defined as menopause before the age of 40.

" About 137 black officeholders had lived outside the South before the Civil War.

Shortly before filming was completed, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve ( 1950 ).

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.