Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] some [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 2 | By the year 2000 , experts believe that airbags will be saving some 9,000 lives per year in the US alone . |
| 3 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 4 | Commonwealth champion Hardy will be fighting some 300 miles away from home and the major support will be noisily reserved for local fighting man Billy Schwer , the former British lightweight title holder on his comeback . |
| 5 | They rapidly erected the Clifton ironworks near Glasgow and early in the following year were producing some 600 tons of finished malleable iron products per month . |
| 6 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 7 | The British government is paying about £16 million to modernise Greenham Common and Molesworth to take cruise missiles , and is contributing some 220 security guards . |
| 8 | So a car developing 30 horsepower at 60 miles an hour is releasing some 90 kW of heat continuously into the air . |
| 9 | Pyramid Technology Corp is cutting some 110 jobs , about 10% of the total , and will take a restructuring charge of between $22m and $24m against figures for its fourth quarter ended September 30 . |
| 10 | The total for 1992 will be around 12.5 million and for the year 2000 the airport authority is projecting some 22 million . |
| 11 | Similar problems are occurring in Rondonia in the southwest of Brazil , where the Polonoroesti road-building project is attracting some 70 000–80 000 settlers per year as the forest is opened up . |
| 12 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |
| 13 | eat concentrated meals at strict mealtimes ( those bristly jaws are working some 16 hours a day ) ; |
| 14 | She was producing some 100,000 rifles a month ; many more were received from her allies ; and hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained . |
| 15 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 16 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |