Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more than 380,000 people for whom Family Assurance Society already look after over £320m worth of savings . |
| 2 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
| 3 | Most new investors will qualify for pioneer status , entitling them to a five to 10- year tax exemption on company profits , depending on the project , and this can be followed by post-pioneer status for up to 10 years of only 10% tax . |
| 4 | The mill originally had two sets of fairly small stones of approximately 2′ diameter , which have not survived . |
| 5 | To approach the ideal of nearly 100% pass at low frequencies , the circuit must be designed such that . |
| 6 | On some issues , residents of both Deer Park and North Forest agree . |
| 7 | Purchases of $700,000 to $1.5m rate 30% on either product , sales of up $700,000 rate 10% on either too . |
| 8 | The planks need a bearing of only 50 — 75mm each side , with one or two ventilation holes of about 25mm diameter bored in each to help keep the pit aired it 's covered . |
| 9 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 10 | Woolworths store in Grange Road , Jarrow , was hit twice on Wednesday when raiders got away with large quantities of children 's clothes including the theft of about £7,000 worth of clothes by a group of about ten youths . |
| 11 | At a depth of about 100km melting begins to occur along the edge of the subducted lithosphere and heat begins to be transferred upwards by rising pockets of magma . |
| 12 | Accommodation An allowance of about £42 weekly must be reserved for lodgings . |
| 13 | The benefit of all this is estimated to be a saving on annual costs of about $4,000m beginning in 1993 — but all the cost-cutting that the company already has under its belt has done no more than enable it to stand still , which is why several analysts question whether even the latest cuts will prove sufficient . |
| 14 | It is in fact a table , with hinging top , of about 36in diameter . |
| 15 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 16 | On the basis of this information proportions of population are allocated to each centre giving a realistic model of how people shop . |
| 17 | This still leaves the fundamental question of how people value landscapes , and how different tastes and needs can be catered for . |
| 18 | ( This is equivalent to an annual interest rate of around 11% net ) . |
| 19 | To sum up , the Peugeot is a lightweight , 1.9kg , line trimmer , that will but swathes of around 250mm diameter , making it good for average garden use . |
| 20 | Inside , the wheel of around 14ft diameter is still in place , as is some of the wooden gearing . |
| 21 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
| 22 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
| 23 | A STOLEN caravan was stripped of over £2,000 worth of property when it was stored at an East Durham farm , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | I mean just because it might be safer to travel on the train does n't from the fact that the incidence of where people gain access to the rails and there are near misses either to the drivers or the people on level crossings or everything else . |
| 25 | subscribe to parents and get free children 's books worth nearly £8 page 90 |
| 26 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 27 | Of the parsers used , the best was able to correctly identify the best parse for these sentences with only 60% accuracy . |
| 28 | Broadview defined information technology companies as those organisations deriving at least 50% of their revenues from computer and/or telecommunications hardware , software and services , excluding those with under £1m turnover . |
| 29 | Cyclists will be checked by police this month in a bid to stop thieves who made off with nearly £75,000 worth of bikes in East Cleveland last year . |
| 30 | Thieves made off with about £600 worth of sweets and crisps after breaking into a vehicle parked in Nelson Terrace , Darlington . |