Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind is gusting to about fifty knots . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's very difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy , but there is at least 1,500 known viruses at large and this figure is increasing by around 100 per month . |
| 4 | The iceberg is moving at about five miles a day , said Principal Met Officer Ken Ingermalls . |
| 5 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 6 | when the child is wetting at least three times a week |
| 7 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 8 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 9 | The Royal Navy is evaluating at least four types of missile for this role . |
| 10 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 11 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 12 | Body Count are playing at least five shows with the rock bands . |
| 13 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 14 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 15 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 16 | According to the Middle East Times of Sept. 24-30 , the country 's annual inflation rate was running at around 700 per cent . |
| 17 | Although the economy was growing at around 2 per cent per annum , and although a fall in the value of the krone had brought the country 's trade balance back into surplus , its industries continued to suffer a severe crisis of confidence . |
| 18 | An annual report published by HM Inspectorate of Pollution in 1987–88 stated that leakage of methane gas was occurring at around 600 landfill sites situated near buildings in Britain and Wales . |
| 19 | At the moment computers are increasing in speed by an average factor of ten per annum , and the number of computers in use in the Western world is increasing by about twenty-five percent per year . |
| 20 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Millard ( 1988 ) estimates that on any day in 1981 the family doctor was caring for approximately 2 per cent of those aged 75 and over . |
| 22 | There are currently fifty thousand undecided cases and the backlog is growing at over three thousand cases a month . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The heavy , cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow . |
| 25 | The picture with regard to briefing and preparation was encouraging with only one assistant reporting that she had not been briefed . |
| 26 | As the cost of hardware continues to drop ( productivity is increasing at about 30 per cent per year in that industry ) individualised computer programming and time-sharing would become expensive relics , he told the conference . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is generally agreed that the conference market is growing by approximately 10 per cent per annum . |