Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thousands have been sold through hairdressers for about seven pounds . |
| 2 | Each seminar will be staged ( not simultaneously ) at five locations throughout Britain to encourage attendance from as wide a geographical area as possible , and will be designed for groups of about 10 to 15 people to encourage maximum delegate participation . |
| 3 | For readers of about ten , try James Gurney 's Dinotopia ( Dorling Kindersley £15 ) . |
| 4 | I 've , I 've never seen it , well I 've , I 've , I 've only had contact , I 've had these , this last set of contacts for about two years now , that 's why I want to get some new ones and erm |
| 5 | The effect of this ( Table 3.3 ) is to reduce its revenue funding by about £600,000 per annum while DHAs 2 and 3 enjoy an increased allocation of funds of about £300,000 per annum each . |
| 6 | It points out that in February 1990 European Community " aid " to Poland took the form of pesticides worth about US$60 million , some of which were banned or severely restricted in Western countries . |
| 7 | President Rafsanjani on July 2 sent messages of thanks to about 100 governments and organizations , excluding , however , the United States , the UK , Iraq and Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | At the end of 1987 , aggregate investment trust assets amounted to 15.5bn and the number of trusts to about 160 . |
| 9 | We were told that typically it could increase the level of instalments by about seven per cent — say , 35p on top of a £5 instalment . |
| 10 | If we did that , we could probably reduce the number of applications by about 75 per cent . |
| 11 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 12 | After the Ventures period , Moseley moved into the manufacture of Dobros until about 1969 . |
| 13 | Borland International Inc president and chief executive Philippe Kahn says the company will report profit for the fourth quarter to March 31 , and adds that he is comfortable with analysts ' estimates of profits of about $0.10 a share : Borland 's target is to be profitable every quarter in the coming fiscal 1994 — Paradox for Windows is ‘ doing great ’ and is on a winning track and Quattro Pro is now picking up . |
| 14 | These 30 km/h schemes with speed-reducing infrastructure have reduced the severity of accidents by about 50 per cent . |
| 15 | Because there is often more than one casualty involved in an accident , it is estimated that this casualty target can be achieved by reducing the number of accidents by about 50 . |
| 16 | Mention has been made of direct labour and of how such organisations have reduced the number of trainees by about 40 per cent . |
| 17 | The most important changes , however , have resulted from the live coverage of proceedings from about 3.10 till 4.50 pm every Tuesday and Thursday and longer on some occasions . |
| 18 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 19 | The project involves installation and integration of systems into about 550 British Army sites worldwide . |
| 20 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 21 | Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years — even if they have daily injections of insulin . |
| 22 | But that would require rent reductions for tenants of about 50% , less paid labour would be used and , for owner occupiers , the average 188ha ( 470-acre ) farm would fall in land value equity by between £200,000 and £300,000 . |
| 23 | Merry Hill Shopping Centre , in Dudley , West Midlands , went into receivership when Mountleigh collapsed last May with debts of about £500 million . |
| 24 | The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds . |
| 25 | After the lecture the cadets are divided into groups of about twenty-five to discuss the implications of all that they have heard . |
| 26 | These are Argentina ( with interest arrears of about $8 billion ) , Brazil ( with arrears of about $9 billion ) and shambolic Peru . |
| 27 | With funds of about £150,000 from the district and regional councils and a similar amount from the private sector , the event ‘ just about breaks even ’ each year , a spokesman said . |
| 28 | Divide the children up into teams of about five or six each and call each team an animal . |
| 29 | In late September , the Met , along with leaders of about forty arts organizations , held a press conference to demonstrate the importance of the arts to the New York economy , using the data of the Seurat study . |
| 30 | If further bushes are required , they are easily home-grown by cutting the pruned-off young stems into lengths of about 10-12 inches and inserting these fairly close together with only two or three inches above soil level . |