Example sentences of "[conj] about [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BellSouth Corp , Atlanta warns that first quarter profits will be reduced by about $20m to $25m or about $0.05 per share because of costs associated with the severe winter weather that scoured the south : among the extraordinary costs are labour and material costs to maintain and restore telephone service . |
| 2 | She paid $60,000 for it in 1952 — or about $320,000 in today 's money . |
| 3 | A new sole will cost from £7–£15 , depending on the material used , or about £4 for only a heel replacement . |
| 4 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 5 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 6 | On the basis of a building purchase price of £200,000 , the total cost of the project would be £1 million , or about £16,000 per flat . |
| 7 | Total international bank lending from London exceeded $1,300 billion in 1991 , or about 18% of total international bank lending . |
| 8 | By 1990-91 , the cost of collection had increased by 83.5 per cent and amounted to £43,558 million , or about £12 of the community charge payable by adults . |
| 9 | In that year the electricity bill for one of the winter quarters was just over £25 but before today 's Society Stewards become too wistful they should also reflect on the fact that the average Sunday offering then through the envelope system was below £17 , or about 7p for each subscriber . |
| 10 | There are 5,300 in the UK covering about 16,270 square kilometres — or about 7% of the land . |
| 11 | From then until harvest the size of the flattened areas steadily increases until it totals well over 1ha ( 2.5 acres ) , or about 3% of the wheat area . |
| 12 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 13 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 14 | Only when the angle of impact is less than about 20° above the surface is the direction of the body preserved , as an elongation of the crater in the impact direction . |
| 15 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 16 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 17 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 18 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 19 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 20 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 21 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 23 | Unless the wind is more than about 45° to the direction of take-off , a strong cross wind seldom creates problems . |
| 24 | Particularly as it has been discovered that about 30% of men who die from other causes are also found to have had prostate cancer . ’ |
| 25 | Complex segregation analysis has indicated that about 30% of all Crohn 's disease patients could be homozygous for a major recessive gene with incomplete penetrance , with no residual causes of family resemblance and a relatively high frequency of homozygosity among younger onset cases . |
| 26 | Market estimates suggest that about 30% of the turnover of German government bonds ( bunds ) , 50% of the turnover in international deutschmark straight issues , and 80%-90% of the turnover of deutschmark FRNs occur in London . |
| 27 | The UN people reckon that about 80% of polling stations are within range of Khmer Rouge artillery . |
| 28 | The Halifax says that about 20% of the money deposited in Tessas was new money — the remaining 80% was transferred from other accounts already held with the society . |
| 29 | Low-magnification micrographs show that about 20% of the nanotubes are 50% of the nanoparticles are filled . |
| 30 | A survey conducted in 1988 by the Treasury and the Stock Exchange found that about 21% of the population owned shares . |