Example sentences of "about [n mass] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Integrating some of the Public Schools in the way proposed would eventually cost about £12m. each year , and £6.1m. in the short term : these plans would now be in open competition with the proposals of the Newsom and Plowden Reports , at a time when severe economies were being applied to public expenditure . |
| 2 | IBM says it expects sales and general administrative expenses to decline by about $1,000m this year through its restructuring efforts . |
| 3 | He uses around 100 cubic metres per year and estimates he has only saved about £10 each year because his house has a relatively low rateable value . |
| 4 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 5 | That cost Midland about £100m last year . |
| 6 | The Datavision business is expected to make about £5m next year , but then to escalate sharply . |
| 7 | The country will get a windfall of about $250m this year from higher oil prices ; that will raise government revenue by 13% . |
| 8 | BRITISH turkey producers are intent on breaking out of their Christmas and Easter straitjacket and aim to spend about £250,000 this year to make the product less boring . |
| 9 | Increasing expenditure on shoreworks led to a VAT liability of about £600,000 last year , and the figure will be greater still in 1991 — exacerbated by the increase from 15% to 17.5% . |