Usage examples of "cerca de" in Portuguese with translation to English

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Pintei a cerca de verde. I painted the fence green.
Está a cerca de oito quilômetros. It's about 8 kilometers away.
cerca de 1000 alunos na nossa escola. There are about 1,000 students at our high school.
Eu o comprei por cerca de 12 dólares. I bought it for about twelve dollars.
cerca de sete bilhões de pessoas no mundo. There are almost seven billion people in the world.
Existem cerca de 6 bilhões de pessoas no mundo. There are about 6 billion people in the world.
O dicionário contém cerca de meio milhão de palavras. The dictionary gathers nearly half a million words.
Tom mora a cerca de vinte minutos de Mary. Tom lives about twenty minutes away from Mary.
O apêndice tem cerca de 10 cm de comprimento. The appendix is about 10 cm long.
A luz viaja a cerca de 186.000 milhas por segundo. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.
O mar cobre cerca de três quartos da superfície da Terra. The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface.
Está a cerca de cento e trinta e três quilômetros de Londres. It's about 133 kilometers from London.
Desligue o modem, aguarde cerca de um minuto e ligue-o novamente. Disconnect the power cable from the modem, wait for approximately one minute, then reconnect the cable.
O Monte Fuji é cerca de quatro vezes mais alto que o Monte Rokko. Mt. Fuji is about four times as high as Mt. Rokko.
Um livro é fino. O outro é grosso. O grosso tem cerca de 200 páginas. One book is thin. The other is thick. The thick one has about 200 pages.
Um furacão de categoria 5 pode alcançar velocidades de cerca de 155 milhas por hora. A category 5 hurricane can reach speeds of about 155 miles per hour.
As unhas das mãos crescem cerca de quatro vezes mais rápido que as unhas dos pés. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.
Deal está situada a sudoeste da Inglaterra, distando cerca de cento e dez quilômetros de Londres. Deal is in the southeast of England, about 110 kilometers away from London.
O tufão nº 11 está se movendo para o norte a cerca de vinte quilômetros por hora. Typhoon No.11 is moving up north at twenty kilometers per hour.
A aldeia inteira partiu no dia seguinte em cerca de trinta canoas, deixando-nos sozinhos com a mulher a as crianças nas casas abandonadas. The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.
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