Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owns three subsidiaries : Charles Farris , which makes enormous church candles that sell for about £35 each ; Aidee International , which manufactures pottery Beatrix Potter soap dishes in Devon ; and Candle Flare , a Colchester-based maker of Christmas decorations . |
| 2 | Today good , unconverted barns in his area sell for about £75,000 . |
| 3 | Battered by Apple , Compaq and Dell , NEC belatedly announced big price cuts in February , but its computers still sell for about ¥150,000 more than those of its foreign competitors . |
| 4 | These antiques of the future sell for about £375 in rosewood . |
| 5 | Erm sell for about eighty seven pound including spacers so I was gon na go in at about eighty three , eighty four but it 's the new pricing company so I 've got to ask your permission have n't I ? |
| 6 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 7 | For 400 years the city has been divided between Estonians and Latvians , but today Russian speakers account for about 40 per cent of the population . |
| 8 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 9 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 10 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 11 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 12 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 13 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
| 14 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 15 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |
| 16 | Of carcinomas positive for human papillomavirus , types 16 and 18 account for about 90% . |
| 17 | External exposures contributed by caesium-137 and short-lived gamma-emitting radionuclides account for about 700 u Gy of the global dose commitment for all tissues . |
| 18 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 19 | In fact , the right-hand side variables in equation ( 6.7 ) account for about 90 per cent of the movements in so this criterion seems likely to be satisfied . |
| 20 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 21 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 22 | To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year . |
| 23 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 24 | Cairns group members — which include Australia , Brazil , Argentina , Indonesia , Canada , the Philippines and Thailand — account for about one-quarter of world agricultural trade . |
| 25 | Food products account for about 30 per cent of Third World manufacturing output and more of employment ( Fath , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 27 | Malignant bile duct strictures are mainly the result of cancer of the ampulla of Vater , pancreas , or bile duct and account for about 75% of patients presenting with extrahepatic bile duct obstruction . |
| 28 | Stillbirths account for about two-thirds of the perinatal deaths in Japan . |
| 29 | Nearly two thirds of the EOE 's clients are private investors who account for about half of the trading volume . |
| 30 | Spider monkeys ( A teles geoffreyi ) on Barro Colorado Island eat leaves , which account for about 20% of their fresh weight intake and provide most of their protein , notable being the protein-rich young shoots of Poulsenia armata ( Moraceae ) and Ceiba pentandra ( Bombacaceae ) , which has 25.3% dry weight protein , and Cecropia leaves , especially their petioles , which have high mineral content . |