Example sentences of "[v-ing] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horse riding is a significant part of the economy , generating some £350 million a year in business for ancillary trades . |
| 2 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 3 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 4 | And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely . |
| 5 | Additional supplies of water are being actively sought , but the simple truth is that the Basingstoke Canal was never designed for the types and levels of boating some people dream of . |
| 6 | And I think being a father means something quite different than dep , from depositing some sperm in a tube or in a woman ! |
| 7 | But most of them are keeping their options open , sending part of the family back to their traditional shambas or plots , but keeping some people in the city . |
| 8 | So I 'm keeping some people down in Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 9 | On April 22nd , for instance , one trust bank is said to have bought 1,000 Nikkei futures contracts , representing some ¥20 billion-worth of shares . |
| 10 | So you 're virtually condemning some people to operate below subsistence |
| 11 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 12 | Electricity demand is likely to grow by between 2% and 2.3% for the remainder of the century and by the year 2000 nuclear energy should be contributing some 40% of demand . |
| 13 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 14 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 15 | These included ( i ) a 90-day moratorium on new federal regulations which could hamper growth , and a fundamental review of all existing regulations ; ( ii ) an instruction to all Cabinet departments and federal agencies " to speed up pro-growth expenditure " , which would infuse an extra $10,000 million into the economy in the next six months ; ( iii ) a change in the federal tax withholding schedules which would stimulate domestic demand by returning some $25,000 million to the economy over the next 12 months ; and ( iv ) a commitment to work with the Federal Reserve Board to hold down interest rates and inflation . |
| 16 | In most cases the slaughter still continues , driving some species close to extinction . |
| 17 | This trade may be driving some species to extinction . |
| 18 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 19 | If each employee works an average of 1,100 hours every year , taking sick leave and holidays into consideration , it will take three employees , costing some £100,000 between them , to perform this task alone . |
| 20 | This marked the completion of the country 's largest industrial project , costing some $2 billion , the Bintulu LNG project and over the next 20 years five Malaysian LNG tankers will be built . |
| 21 | In nine cases costing some £7 million the Department of Transport recovered only £200,000 . |
| 22 | Economic growth averaging some 3% per year is likely to the end of the century , despite current measures to curb the huge budget deficit and the probability of periodic banking crises as financial institutions , many of them over-extended by loans to energy producers , go to the wall . |
| 23 | Looking some people in the face I could see what 15 years of hard work had done to them . |
| 24 | Fields already declared commercial are likely to produce at 100,000 barrels per day ( 5 million tonnes ) and it is predicted that by 1990 the Netherlands could be meeting some 20% of its oil requirements . |
| 25 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
| 26 | New laws and more paperwork are forcing some people to stop being foster parents , the National Foster Care Association said yesterday . |
| 27 | NEW LAWS and more paperwork are forcing some people to stop being foster parents , the National Foster Care Association said yesterday . |
| 28 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 29 | In what may be the first of several similar moves , Alpha Microsystems Inc , Santa Ana , is to acquire the assets of the hardware maintenance division of MGI Group International Inc , a Los Angeles-based Unix integrator with 294 local service contracts , adding some $1.2m to Alpha Micro 's nationwide annual service revenues ; the acquisition , whose terms were undisclosed , is expected to be completed later this month . |
| 30 | A massive product , occupying some 18Mb plus of hard disk space , with the whole of 15th Century Germany as the playing area . |