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About two-thirds of the boys now come from public schools.
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* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.
About two-thirds of the Burgess Shale organisms lived by feeding on the organic content in the muddy sea floor, while almost a third filtered out fine particles from the water column.
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.
" About two-thirds of the soldiers were unmarried, and Burton noted a "... corps of prostitutes kept for the use of the Amazon-soldieresses.
About two-thirds of the total population is under age 30, 36 % of whom are under 14.
About two-thirds of the annual precipitation occurs between June and September.
About two-thirds of young Swiss men are found suitable for service, while alternative service exists for those found unsuitable.
About two-thirds of Australian marsupials belong to the order Diprotodontia, which is split into three suborders: the Vombatiformes ( wombats and the koala, 4 species in total ); the large and diverse Phalangeriformes ( the possums and gliders ) and Macropodiformes ( kangaroos, potoroos, wallabies and the musky rat-kangaroo ).
About two-thirds of Oakland lies in the flat plain of the East Bay, with one-third rising into the foothills and hills of the East Bay range.
About two-thirds of body cells require insulin to absorb glucose and in its absence, they will not be able to use the glucose ( blood sugar ) for energy.
About two-thirds of all variable stars appear to be pulsating.
About two-thirds of the population lives on New Providence Island ( the location of Nassau ), and about half of the remaining one-third lives on Grand Bahama ( the location of Freeport ).
About two-thirds of its people, many of whom are subsistence farmers, live in poverty.
About two-thirds of all prescriptions are dispensed as solid dosage forms, and half of these are compressed tablets.
About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labour, education and communications.
About two-thirds of the county's population lives in the city's suburbs.
About two-thirds of gay and lesbian students in Britain ’ s schools have suffered from gay bullying, a survey by the Schools Health Education Unit found.
About one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in New York City.
About two-thirds of the local population are in the federal poverty range, the majority are migrant laborers and every May, the population triples to 25, 000 to 40, 000 giving Mecca the distinction as the highest population density of any community in rural California ( about 15, 000 per square mile ).
About two-thirds of Verde Village residents are retired.
About two-thirds were owner-occupied, and one-third rented.
About two-thirds of the population died in the epidemics, decreasing the population to about 12, 000.
About two-thirds of the Moon's mare basalts erupted within the Upper Imbrian Series, with many of these lavas filling the depressions associated with older impact basins.
About one-third of the north's imports came down the northeast railroad from the PRC, while the remaining two-thirds came by sea through Haiphong and other ports.
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About Around 1959 a new idea was put in place to cater for younger boys.
About 6, 000 men were available to man the artillery and to assault the fort, if necessary, including the local militia, young boys, and older men.
About 3 % of full-term and 30 % of premature infant boys are born with at least one undescended testis.
About 170 boys and 30 young men come together to rehearse in Stuttgart weekly, because the choir does not have a boarding school.
About 1940, some of the " Anderson " congregations began to express dissatisfaction with what they discerned to be " drifting " in the movement in areas such as mixed bathing between boys and girls, modesty, the entrance of the television into the home, the wearing of jewelry, and other practices which they considered to be at variance with what Daniel Warner had taught as Biblical truths.
About 9 P. M. a group of three boys were at play in a residential back yard.
About a month later, in early February 1973, Mullin was wandering around Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park where he saw four teenaged boys out camping.
About half-past one o ' clock on the morning, an explosion took place in Felling colliery, by which nine men and thirteen boys were hurried into eternity, several others severely burnt, and all the under-ground horses but one destroyed.
About 710, Saint Willibrord visited the Danes whilst Ongendus was ruling and returned with 30 boys to instruct in missionary work.
About the boys in Carmanville who almost went to jail.
About and now
About now he's probably having supper.
About a dozen other adverbs are bare roots, such as nun " now ", tro " too, too much ", not counting the adverbs among the correlatives.
* 1945 – World War II: About 3, 000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken ( now Yantarny, Russia ) and executed.
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 8, 000 U. S. soldiers land in South Vietnam ; U. S. troops now total 190, 000.
About 3000 planetary nebulae are now known to exist in our galaxy, out of 200 billion stars.
About on they passed present-day Montpelier, Idaho, which is now the site of the National Oregon-California Trail Center.
Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...
About 593, 000 years ago, andesitic lavas erupted in what is now Mount Shasta's western flank near McBride Spring.
ITV's most successful sitcoms were generally produced in the 1970s, including Rising Damp, On the Buses, George and Mildred, Man About The House and the now unfashionable Love Thy Neighbour.
About the same time, Joseph Bertrand also established a trading post on the river, in a location now part of Niles Charter Township.
About 1913 her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Simmerman, moved to this house and hired Andrew Shirrell to erect a two-story addition to the front of the original house to form the structure as it is now.
About a decade later, a streetcar line was laid down Florissant Road from what is now Suburban Avenue west to Wesley Avenue.
About 1963 the old high school is destroyed ( students now go to Madras ) and the elementary was again expanded to include an office, a library and two more classrooms.
In 2002, the pilot for the show What I Like About You was picked up by The WB, which now has become The CW.
About 15 years ago, TI comprised approximately 25 percent of the city's economy and now it stands at about one-tenth of that, or 2. 5 percent.
About half of housing is now South of the A246 ( between Bookham and East Horsley ) at the top of the small High Street " The Street ".
About a slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, " Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for some years one of the more prolific composers of light and pleasing music, and one of the best and most popular teachers in Vienna.
About a century later the title was resurrected by Otto I though the new empire was now centered in Germany rather than France.
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 2 / 3 of the Greek original is now lost, but the full version was translated to Latin by the Roman poet Catullus, and his version exists to this day.
Serious About Comedy was a weekly show, now decommissioned, presented by Robin Ince where comedians and comedy critics discuss comedy television, radio, DVDs, and films from the last week.
will. i. am performed a new song, " Help Us Out ", at the event, which is now on his album, Songs About Girls, as " S. O. S.
About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep ; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould.
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