Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have laboured long at programmed learning sequences , even if less wholeheartedly multi-media in scope , will agree that such units take time to prepare . |
| 2 | It was found that while the annual revenue was about $400,000 , there was only about $1,000 in the account ; John Piper had received $20,000 as his percentage and $8,000 as his salary , and the remainder had been frittered away by lax and costly administration . |
| 3 | I stumbled shorewards , praying the hook would hold , and after a considerable struggle , managed to beach a fine trout , just under 2lb in weight . |
| 4 | Just under £750,000 in the mid eighteenth century , they rose through £5.3 million in 1803 to more than £8 million by 1813 . |
| 5 | Just under £60m in cash is believed to have changed hands in the deal where the pub owning company Enterprise Inns , headed by Taunton Cider chairman Michael Cottrell , acquired the Bass outlets . |
| 6 | The total direct expenditure on training of our sample was just under £280,000 in 1983/4 , and estimated at just under £300,000 for 1984/5 . |
| 7 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 8 | The frets are quite fine at just over 2mm in width , and the quality of the fretwork and the fit of the nut is first class . |
| 9 | Recorded annual precipitation ranges from just over 1000mm in parts of the Broad Bay area of Lewis to over 2400 mm on some of the higher summits of Harris . |
| 10 | Each week she receives just over £100 in benefits , but has only enough money left to feed her children after paying bills , a mortgage and housing repairs . |
| 11 | Losses in the fourth quarter were nearly two thirds higher in sterling terms at $49.4m ( 1991 : $30.6m loss ) following the impact of the New York snow storms in December which cost $8m and additional claims costs in connection with Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ which amounted to just over $11m in the quarter , including assumed reinsurance and the cost of the reinstatement premium . |
| 12 | WHITBREAD Investment Company , the offshoot of the eponymous brewing empire , increased its income 9 per cent to just over £7million in the six months to the end of September . |
| 13 | Following Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 , the price of oil rose from $16.18 a barrel ( July price ) to an average of $26.50 in the first 24 days of August , and reached a high of just over $41 in October . |
| 14 | The ceilidh dance we held — way back in February — was a huge success and we raised just over £450 in profit . |
| 15 | But with each loser taking home about £28,000 in prize money courtesy of Pilkington Glass , even the underdogs could afford to be a little more cheerful . |
| 16 | It followed a day of incidents yesterday when people in the Breton ports of Concarneau and Roscoff staged protest marches , attacked warehouses and forced a British cargo ferry carrying lorries loaded with fish to switch ports . |
| 17 | Presumably also sperm in a sperm-bank and human organs for transplant can be stolen . |
| 18 | US aid commitments to Zimbabwe began at $24m at Independence in 1980 , rose to $84m in 1982 , fell to $59m in 1984 and were set to fall well below $20m in early 1986 prior to a decision in September 1986 to cancel all future aid programmes … |
| 19 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 20 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 21 | Here too fish in certain areas are found to contain high concentrations of mercury . |
| 22 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 23 | The political temperature throughout the spring was very high , and Labour 's lead in the polls was consistently over 20% in the month following their dramatic gain in the Mid-Staffordshire parliamentary by-election in late March . |
| 24 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |
| 25 | Those who said they would prefer the smallest possible instalments , spread over a long period , were most commonly people in lower socio-economic groups , people with current credit commitments , and people with whom the amount they said they would borrow ( if they borrowed money ) was relatively small . |
| 26 | Okay only people in their part two , but |
| 27 | I mean admittedly you do n't get that much fish in there do you ? |