Example sentences of "[v-ing] at about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen those sods before , they always keep a few Fokkers lurking at about five thousand . |
| 2 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 3 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 4 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 5 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 6 | Well if he says he wa he wants his wife to have twenty thousand a year , I mean you 're looking at about two hundred and fifty , three hundred thousand gross |
| 7 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 8 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 9 | Round about , as a erm a ball park figure , because it does vary on the dealer 's claims rate , but you 'd be looking at about a hundred and seventy five . |
| 10 | Cable code was faster , operating at about 54 words/min , or 20BAud . |
| 11 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 12 | I have observed that brichardi left with their parents stop growing at about 1¼″ — in the confines of an aquarium they are likely to be killed if they grow any larger . |
| 13 | With the similar sized LoProfile selling at about £20 less I do n't think this product justifies its pricing . |
| 14 | The head and body scanner version was then introduced selling at about £250 000 . |
| 15 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 16 | This earns some US$ 2.3 billion per year but the problem is that domestic consumption is rising at about 12% per year and this is threatening exports . |
| 17 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 18 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 19 | Robert Layton will be flying at about 2,000 feet to stay below commercial flight routes , low enough to run into bad weather , or his worst nightmare , fog as he crosses the Channel . |
| 20 | The iceberg is moving at about five miles a day , said Principal Met Officer Ken Ingermalls . |
| 21 | In fact , of course , even someone who is stationary on the earth is moving at about 18.6 miles ( 30 kilometers ) a second around the sun . |
| 22 | The cutters then took up position in a square around Guiding Lights which was still moving at about ten knots . |
| 23 | We were about thirty yards from the crossing and travelling at about fifteen miles an hour when a middle-aged man stepped off the pavement into the road . |
| 24 | At the end of the record , when the stylus is approaching the label , the groove is travelling at about twenty inches per second , yet the sound quality is very similar . |
| 25 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 26 | In front of Levagh was the Austin Healey of Lance Macklin ( GB ) , travelling at about 210 kph ( 130 mph ) . |
| 27 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 28 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 29 | In his statement , he said he was travelling at about 55mph . |
| 30 | Take Britain 's case with a deficit running at about £20bn a year . |