Example sentences of "[prep] about [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country has boasted yearly growth of about 6% since 1987 , when he took the IMF 's bitter economic-reform pill , and eliminated 30,000 civil-service jobs . |
| 2 | Merely the removal of about £100,000 from the League annually in TV fees and sponsorship can cause an icy blast to the Fourth Division 's infirm . |
| 3 | However , BWD Rensburg , the broker , is looking for pre-tax profits of about £1.2m in the year ending 31 March against £1.04m reported for last year . |
| 4 | It will also sell its 70% stake in its Taiwanese factory , in exchange for cancellation of about $150m in debt , and 51% of its sales unit in Taiwan will be sold to local partners — Wang will continue to receive 49% of the Taiwan operations profits , but its sales will no longer be included in Wang 's consolidated figures . |
| 5 | Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC . |
| 6 | The narrowing on its own was unlikely however to reduce speeds significantly , so pinch points were placed at intervals of about 50m along the road . |
| 7 | In early October the advisory committee , representing the 450 creditor banks , had announced that Venezuela had paid $900,000,000 in accumulated arrears of interest payments following the granting of a bridging loan of about $600,000,000 by 25 creditor banks in September [ see p. 37313 for March 1990 debt reduction agreement ] . |
| 8 | The average sum allocated for every child aged 5–17 by these children in single-parent families ranges from a minimum of about £100 to a maximum of just over £300 ; a range of £200 . |
| 9 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 10 | There has to be a gap of about 0.008in. in the magnetic circuit and this is best introduced by sticking a double thickness of ordinary drafting tape to the pole faces of one of the E-cores . |
| 11 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 12 | Farmers , the second largest car insurer in the state , had previously sought a 5.9 per cent increase to offset projected losses of about $100m on high-risk drivers . |
| 13 | This time the phase shift changes over from about zero to a lead of about 90° within a decade of pulsatance either side of . |
| 14 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 15 | In theory the gutters will drain if fixed dead level , but in practice it is better to fit them with a slight fall of about 1in in 50ft . |
| 16 | There have also been reductions in nicotine ( from an average of about 2mg in 1955–61 to about 1.3mg by 1980 ) and to a lesser extent in carbon monoxide ( 20.6mg in 1955–61 to 14.7mg in 1985 ) [ 2 ] . |
| 17 | An isobaric temperature difference of about 300°C has been estimated across the width of the aureole , with a maximum temperature of about 650°C at about 3 kilobars adjacent to the contact of the granodiorite intrusion . |
| 18 | The number of cells expressing the lowest- M r isoform detected by the CD45R0 antibody ( UCHL1 ) increases thereafter , to reach the adult level of about 50% by the age of 10–20 years . |
| 19 | In both groups there was a fall of about 50% in duodenogastric reflux after smoking a single cigarette ( controls , 1.3–0.7 ml h - 1 and patients , 33.0–14.7 ml h - 1 ( Table I ) . |
| 20 | Thus , the average effect of marking to the market was an additional profit of about £8 per contract . |
| 21 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 22 | There has been a consistent increase in the number of well qualified applicants of about 30% to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , and we are able to admit only one in 18 applicants . |
| 23 | They are typically fine-boned and long-lived , and the cows average 122cm at the withers and 400kg , with milk yields of about 4,700kg at 6.25 per cent butterfat ( more than 7 per cent in some cases ) . |
| 24 | Africa with a population of about 500m in 1980 will have 850m by 2000 and 1,600m by 2025 . |
| 25 | Solar power costs about £2.26 a watt — a reduction of about £6 since 1980 . |
| 26 | The usual coiled electrical flexible cable consists of about 5m of cable , with a plug on one end and the socket mounted on a reel at the other end . |
| 27 | El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting . |
| 28 | POLICE are interviewing a London-based independent financial adviser about the whereabouts of about £4.5m in client funds . |
| 29 | Wessex Home Care , based in Poole , Dorset , is believed to seek fees of about £3,000 from prospective agencies . |
| 30 | Terminals will cost around £500 ; on top of this , subscribers will have to pay for their information at the rate of about £30 per month . |