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Example sentences for "only about"

  • After speaking of Ega as a city, it will have a ludicrous effect to mention that the total number of its inhabitants is only about 1200.

  • They are of cylindrical shape, having, properly speaking, no neck, and the blunt tail which is only about an inch in length, is of the same shape as the head.

  • Yesterday Floyd's division of State troops were turned over to the Confederacy--only about 200!

  • He intimated that Early's army consisted of only about 1000 men!

  • Only about 25 of the enemy's troops are said to be there, merely to guard the wires.

  • Only about 40 percent of the victims were occupants of the vehicles involved and, of them, a considerably larger number of passengers than drivers were killed.

  • Only about 1,400 miles of the local roads were modernized, and less than one-half of them had hardened surfaces.

  • It is not completely exhausted of colour, only about one-half going on the fibre.

  • The dye-bath is not exhausted, only about 3 lb.

  • The bath is not exhausted, the cotton taking up only about 3 lb.

  • This editor was a bluff and hearty Englishman, about forty years of age, and was reported engaged to a daughter of Brigham Young's, only about seventeen.

  • These leave a margin of about 11 pounds per horse-power in the case of the large machine and of only about two to four pounds per horse-power in the case of the smaller and higher speed machine.

  • It should be remembered, in thinking in terms of food nutritional value, that, on the average, only about 12 per cent.

  • Only about twenty- five, who assembled on the southern side of the chapel, joined the prayer meeting.

  • Only about 30 attend it, and it is not known to what extent they enjoy the Proceedings.

  • Only about 70 are connected as "members" with its physical temple in Avenham- road.

  • I find that the furnace is only about 3 feet wide at the bottom, and that the elevation of the arch above the bottom is no more than 30 inches.

  • The produce of their labour is only about 4 cwt.

  • When it comes to be refined, the loss is only about one-twelfth or one-thirteenth, whereas the lead revived in the reverberatory furnace, loses frequently a ninth.

  • Am watching the banks, and I do believe the soil is running out, only about a foot until it changes to a clay.

  • In several cases, only about half of the flesh had been eaten from the carcasses.

  • The average produce of one thousand vines is said, however, to be only about 450 lbs.

  • Speaking in a very general way, only about one-half the land on these farms is in cultivated crops, while only 40% of the income may be from the products which cause the farm to be thus classified.

  • Only about 44% of the wood in the trees now harvested in the United States is incorporated into buildings, apparatus and furniture.

  • The transit in question commenced shortly before sunset, and his observations in consequence were limited to only about half-an-hour.

  • Since the mass of the moon is only about one-eightieth that of the earth, it will be understood that the force of gravity which she exercises is much less.

  • It is calculated that, at her surface, this is only about one-sixth of what we experience.

  • We thus get an idea of their small degree of thickness, which would appear to be only about 50 miles.

  • Description of Plant--This native herbaceous perennial is only about 6 to 8 inches in height when in flower.

  • But if we should travel northward to within four miles, say, of the north pole, the surface point would be moving at the rate of only about a mile an hour.

  • It was as familiar to the ancients as it is to us, and yet it is only about three-quarters of a century since the cause of it has been understood.

  • Least progress was made in the production of cigarettes and bricks--only about 6 to 7 percent--and the output of timber actually declined from 6 million to 5 million cubic feet.

  • Its normal flow varies seasonally by only about one-third.

  • Arable land figures notwithstanding, good agricultural land amounts to only about 5 percent of the country's area.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrived from; distinguished himself; each pole; only another; only apparent; only chance; only fancy; only for; only four; only friend; only from; only hope; only know she came and went; only once; only one; only remains; only served; only son; only the; only then; only thirty; only thought; only thus; only too; reef knot; revolutionary action