About one hundred and fifty such units of government existed.

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

About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan asked for help from the Persians, so the Persians sent all of their criminals as an army to Yemen.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

About fifty years ago, the houses were few in number, and principally situated on top of the hill, adjoining the churchyard, where is an ancient cross, and at a small distance the parsonage house, now gone much to decay and occupied by working people.

About fifty Protestants and religious reformers, known as the Marian martyrs, were executed here during the reign of Mary I.

About fifty, fearing punishment, fled to Sicily.

About fifty Marines and about 100 bluejacket U. S. Navy sailors landed unopposed and captured Monterey without incident.

About fifty years later, the Bulgars conquered much of the Balkan Peninsula and extended their domain to the lowlands of what is now central Albania. In general, the invaders destroyed or weakened Roman and Byzantine cultural centers in the lands that would become Albania.

About fifty computers at Stanford University, and also computers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, were amongst the zombie computers sending pings in DDoS attacks.

About six miles ( 9. 6 km ) from the fort the road dipped more than fifty feet ( 15 m ) into a marshy ravine where a stream about three feet ( 1 m ) wide meandered along the bottom.

About fifty percent of the surrounding land is in forest, but most of the remainder is under agriculture.

About fifty of the San Patricios were tried and hanged following their capture at Churubusco in August 1847.

About fifty Europeans and 250 Egyptians were killed.

About fifty years later the bones were removed, but the cages have remained into the 21st century.

About two hundred or two hundred fifty priests and nuns in training are in residence.

About fifty children's stores are read for the programme every year by the likes of Robyn Malcolm and Lloyd Scott.

Yukteswar heard him say, " About fifty years after my passing ," he said, " my life will be written because of a deep interest in yoga which the West will manifest.

About 300 Africans took part and the estimated death toll ranges from fifty to a hundred, although exact numbers are unknown.

About fifty shots were afterwards fired with little effect upon the solid walls.

About a third of its 24, 000 students are foreign students, from fifty countries.

About eighty years prior, when Jake was eighteen, he went with his father Captain Benjamin Sisko on the USS Defiant to observe the inversion of the Bajoran Wormhole, an event that only occurs every fifty years.

About fifty percent of the programs were in color and seventy percent were being recorded.

About a hundred and fifty members of the Royal County of Berkshire Real Tennis Club use the court.

About a thousand manuscripts exist, all ultimately derived from the copy made by Theodorus.

About 300 manuscripts are extant ,, one of the highest figures for a secular work.

* About lontar ( palmleaves manuscripts ).

* About 1250 medieval manuscripts including the great 12th-century Eadwine Psalter from Christ Church, Canterbury and the 13th-century Anglo-Norman Trinity Apocalypse

In 1979, the Ehret Literature Publishing Company Inc, in New York, inherited Ehret ’ s publications and archive of unpublished German manuscripts on nature cure, natural diet, physiology, history, philosophy, religion, metaphysics, spirituality and Nietzsche including The Ascona Lectures and About The Healthy Human.

About the same time the broadly trained and energetic Photius, patriarch of the city and the greatest statesman of the Greek Church ( 820-897 ), enthusiastically collected forgotten manuscripts, revived forgotten works of antiquity, and re-discovered lost works ; his attention was chiefly directed to prose works, indicative of his pragmatism.

About noon they came up with the enemy two miles from Lovejoy's Station and deployed.

About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.

`` About nine this morning Mrs. Buck phones me she's having trouble with one of her farm hands -- money trouble.

About 200 of the special V-1 rocket-bombs were to be made ready for manned flight with an explosive warhead.

About 30 countries maintain about seventy research stations ( 40 year-round or permanent, and 30 summer-only ) in Antarctica, with an approximate population of 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter.

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

About 26 were sold to Siam and saw action as Infantry support guns and AA guns during the Franco-Thai war ( 1940-1941 ) along with 30 Vickers Mk. E Type B 6-ton tanks.

About twenty isotopes and six nuclear isomers ( excited states of an isotope ) of berkelium have been characterized with the atomic numbers ranging from 235 to 254.

About a third of all reports of Bigfoot sightings are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, with most of the remaining reports spread throughout the rest of North America .< ref name =" Car08_p118 ">< span id =" Car08 "></ span ></ ref > Some Bigfoot advocates, such as John Willison Green, have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.

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 half of the refugees were SPLA soldiers with more than 5000 weapons, who allegedly occupied towns as far as 200 km into the C. A. R.

About an hour after fragment K entered Jupiter, observers recorded auroral emission near the impact region, as well as at the antipode of the impact site with respect to Jupiter's strong magnetic field.

About two-thirds of people with chronic symptoms have cardiac damage, including dilated cardiomyopathy, which causes heart rhythm abnormalities and may result in sudden death.

All About Eve ( 1950 ) focused on women, and their relationship with men.

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 100 V6 engines were built for testing purposes and 13 DKW F102 as well as some Mungas were fitted with the V6 engine in the 1960s.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

She continued touring in 1986 with the Think About Love Tour, and 1989 for the White Limozeen Tour.

About the same time, Internet Explorer 5. 0 shipped with limited support for DOM Level 1.

She began collaborating with Vertov, beginning as his editor but becoming assistant and co-director in subsequent films, such as Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ), and Three Songs About Lenin ( 1934 ).

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

About 200 painted tombs display murals of various scenes with call-outs and descriptions in Etruscan.