Example sentences of "[adv prt] by about " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | THE London stock market is down by about 8 per cent from this year 's peak . |
| 2 | The reduction in VAT from 22 p.c. to 18.6 p.c. from next Monday will bring car prices down by about 2.8 p.c . |
| 3 | Since then , Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett have whittled it down by about 2 seconds . |
| 4 | NORTH WEST ‘ Properties costing over £100,000 have come down by about 20 per cent , semis by about ten per cent and terraces by about five per cent , ’ says Clive Watkin of the Clive Watkin Partnership on the Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 5 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , a spokesman for Stena Sealink , which carries twice as much as its competitors , P&O and SeaCat , admitted its car traffic was down by about 9pc for the first four months of 1993 , with the total number of passengers also slightly down . |
| 7 | The programme also said profits would be down by about £200million on last year 's total of more than £1billion . |
| 8 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 9 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 10 | She said , a bus was flagged down by about seven , six policeman she claimed . |
| 11 | Depending on the time of year and what 's going on , I 'm usually in by about 7.45 . |
| 12 | It was all over by about 9pm : the ruling Barisan had scored a resounding thumping victory — 49 out of 56 seats . |
| 13 | The game could really have been over by about 60 mins , if not half time . |
| 14 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 15 | Vic , however , will be better off by about twenty pounds a month . |
| 16 | Under Labour his top tax rate would jump from 40 to 49 per cent , and his overall tax bill would go up by about £1,080 a year , essentially because of increased national insurance . |
| 17 | So unless there is something very wrong with elementary physics , it seems that the world is bound to warm up by about 2°C by AD 2050 . |
| 18 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |
| 19 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 20 | Next thing you know , women 's hemlines go up by about three feet . |
| 21 | If the mid-year inflation figures are used , then incomes from farming went up by about 16pc . |
| 22 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 23 | The cost is going to be some three thousand four hundred million I think er t to the U K. That 's er e gone up by about thirteen percent four hundred million roughly , er over the original estimate . |
| 24 | The cost is going to be some three thousand four hundred million I think to er to the U K. That 's er gone up by about thirteen percent , four hundred million roughly , er over the original estimates , half of that is due to programme re-orientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as I understand it . |
| 25 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 26 | ‘ In the year to October 1991 the average price of a pint of beer went up by about 13pc , more than three times the rate of inflation . |
| 27 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 28 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 29 | like if say we would , we would get out by about seven . |
| 30 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |