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 | By the year 2000 coal and nuclear will be the two leading fuels for electricity generation , accounting together for about 65% of the total . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | World-wide sea levels have increased only by about 15cm over the past century . |
| 10 | It has previously been reported that H pylori infection raises serum pepsinogen I in non-uraemic patients but only by about 25% . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Bond business empire was once worth about £3.5 billion . |
| 16 | Household expenditure rose gradually from about £13,000 per annum in 1509 to some £25,000 per annum in the late 1530s . |
| 17 | It grows quickly to about 60cm ( 2ft ) tall , flowers profusely , and sets seed without any difficulty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In fact , the collectorship of Aberdeenshire , formerly worth about £70 per annum to the holder , was considered to have increased in value to between £800 and £1,000 by 1800 . |
| 20 | Add sufficient extra flour to make the dough manageable , then knead it thoroughly for about 10min , until smooth and shiny . |
| 21 | In 1975 around 160 million tons were traded internationally for about $50 billion . |
| 22 | It is estimated that business travel ( both national and international ) accounted for 750 million trips worldwide in 1989 and was probably worth about $320 billion . |
| 23 | The former is probably worth about £3 per hour , and the latter , which effectively halves fixed costs , is worth about £4–£5 per hour , depending upon utilisation . |
| 24 | The Sovereign sits alongside the Swedish-made Levin Goliath as a well-made , medium-priced acoustic which plays well , sounds okay and is probably worth about £150 . |
| 25 | Probably to about 10% of the population and probably not to the other 90% . |
| 26 | To make up these leaf forms , each motif is prepared by first cutting out two rectangles of suitable size having the grain running obliquely at about 45° which are then edge-jointed and taped together . |
| 27 | The Sierra is now worth about £1750 in a private sale . |
| 28 | THE explosive growth in the computer games market , now worth about £500 million a year , made a heavy dent in profits from conventional toys such radio-controlled cars , kits and train sets , causing many casualties . |
| 29 | NCR Corp cut prices by 11% to 19% on its NCR System 3000 model 3170 Notebook , and added a three-year extended warranty : end-user pricing is now from about $2,532 to $3,345 . |
| 30 | If you have n't quite made up your mind , this is a great time for comparison : Ivory Coast pineapples are in the markets now from about 60p . |