Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books : Blue Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg ( Black/Norton , £11.95 ) , good for historical sights ; Brugge Inside Out available locally for about £4 is useful for more down-to-earth matters . |
| 2 | Scuba diving is available locally for about £20 per day , and we 're told there are many interesting wrecks to dive to if you 're experienced . |
| 3 | Matthews estimates that a truck-mounted unit would require a 350 kW accelerator operating at 10 MV. At present , commercial machines only reach 40kW , but the Star Wars equipment could be built commercially for about $3.5m . |
| 4 | Bring to the boil and leave to simmer gently for about 10min . |
| 5 | Yeah , I 'm usually in for about quarter to eight , half seven , quarter to eight |
| 6 | By the year 2000 coal and nuclear will be the two leading fuels for electricity generation , accounting together for about 65% of the total . |
| 7 | The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory consists of a main building with a connected annex , with a total area of about 4,700m 2 , together with about 550m 2 in the New Chemistry Laboratory , situated some 50m distant . |
| 8 | The computer unit that is being closed had sales of just $169m last year , down from about $1,200m at its peak , shortly before Prime completed a hostile takeover of the original Computervision company back in early 1988 . |
| 9 | It went straight across the area where Deane wellied in from about 6yds . |
| 10 | The value of York 's trade at Hull probably fell from about £10,000 annually to about £2,500 between the last quarter of the fourteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth ( 56 ) . |
| 11 | It can also cut access holes down to about 5in diameter in plasterboard or floorboards in fairly confined spaces because of its in-line design , ( using a small-radius cutting blade for wood/plaster ) . |
| 12 | CHP sizes are cost-effective — now down to about 17kW electrical output — and suitable for the average 25-bedroom hotel . |
| 13 | By now I was down to about 15″ . |
| 14 | Costs need to come down to about £1.13 before solar power makes an impact on the energy market . |
| 15 | In the meantime , specific cost-cutting exercises need to be considered to bring the cost for the next six months down to about £9,000 . |
| 16 | A well-made heap will heat rapidly to about 66°C in the first week , the temperature then dropping slowly down to about 29°C after three months . |
| 17 | Expense ratio is around 16% against a market average of about 30% ( but if it takes into account the cost of selling and servicing ‘ add-on products ’ such as legal expenses insurance and moves other costs into claims cost , as competitors do , it is down at about 13% ) . |
| 18 | Thames is not saying exactly how much the system will save it , but it will cut electricity bills alone by about £5 million a year and reduce reservoir capacity requirements by a quarter . |
| 19 | The programme also said profits would be down by about £200million on last year 's total of more than £1billion . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | World-wide sea levels have increased only by about 15cm over the past century . |
| 22 | It has previously been reported that H pylori infection raises serum pepsinogen I in non-uraemic patients but only by about 25% . |
| 23 | As most of the SO 2 cloud is converted to sulphate by September , the perturbations of the photochemical balance of O 3 are substantially reduced at this time compared with July ; O 3 production through cycle I now represents less than 10% of the O 3 production in the mid-stratosphere ( Fig. 2 b ) , and oxygen photolysis is reduced only by about 10% in the lower stratosphere ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 24 | Shorting the gain change control line to ground will increase the second stage gain by a factor of ten and should reveal micropulsations in the shape of an output which fluctuates randomly by about 0.2V . |
| 25 | Sir Phil , who walked away with about £70m from the takeover of Harris Queensway , has built Carpetright into one of Britain 's leading carpet retailers after opening his first store in London 's Canning Town in 1988 . |
| 26 | Sir Phil , who walked away with about £70m from the takeover of Harris Queensway , has built Carpetright into one of Britain 's leading carpet retailers . |
| 27 | The Bond business empire was once worth about £3.5 billion . |
| 28 | Thieves made off with about £600 worth of sweets and crisps after breaking into a vehicle parked in Nelson Terrace , Darlington . |
| 29 | Household expenditure rose gradually from about £13,000 per annum in 1509 to some £25,000 per annum in the late 1530s . |
| 30 | It grows quickly to about 60cm ( 2ft ) tall , flowers profusely , and sets seed without any difficulty . |