Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISPRA , the EEC 's main nuclear research establishment , is now certain to be a ‘ favoured competitor ’ in an orgy of bidding for some £300 million worth of EEC-funded research into fusion technology that is now getting under way . |
| 2 | The former head of the Toko commodity trading company was arrested on Sept. 18 on charges relating to some £32,200,000 of fraudulent dealings involving fictitious futures contracts . |
| 3 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 4 | But mind you , according to some people it was virtually impossible for him to beget any bastards , but still . |
| 5 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |
| 6 | IBM Corp with only a 7% share of the workstation market , translating to some $670m looked decidedly odd in International Data Corp 's worldwide market share figures for workstations in 1992 , which we reported in CI No 2,152 . |
| 7 | Erm I still want to bring Kate and her father as well I think cos he 's looking at some people , is n't he ? |
| 8 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 9 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 10 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |
| 11 | Nuclear energy will grow considerably but from a low base accounting for some 3% of total energy demand by the year 2000 from programmes underway in Brazil , Argentina and Mexico . |
| 12 | IBM Corp says revenues from European sales of its RS/6000 machines rose by 28% during 1992 , accounting for some 43% — $1,000m — of its worldwide Unix market . |
| 13 | Women are most heavily concentrated in the sales and service sectors , accounting for some 60% to 70% of the work-force , generally speaking the worst paid areas of work . |
| 14 | Fisheries officials believe that this could result in the rivers being permanently lacking in some species of fish , and this in turn poses a serious threat to the fishing communities on the river banks . |
| 15 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 16 | In 1711 he was summoned before the parliamentary commissioners for examining and stating the public accounts and testified that he and his predecessor had regularly paid commission on their contracts to the duke of Marlborough , amounting to some £6,000 a year . |
| 17 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 18 | Yes , certainly those are all included in our aid programme which , as I have said , is substantial , amounting to some £17 million a year . |
| 19 | Only this year will revenues from its open system products begin to outstrip sales of Cyber kit , even though mainframe revenues are decreasing by around 25% a year and sales of open systems rising by some 100% a year . |
| 20 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 21 | Computer Library provides CD-ROM network systems and database subscriptions to Australian libraries , and distributes the LIBS 100plus products in Australia ; its sales are running at some $3.3m a year . |
| 22 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 23 | If DCE is accepted as a de facto standard , Novell says it may embed the modules NetWare , although it says this is unlikely to happen unless OSF reviews its DCE licensing fees currently running at some $2,500 . |
| 24 | Not that I 'm one for erm like talking like some people do and wanting this and er you know . |
| 25 | He was standing with some people in the entrance hall when I arrived . |
| 26 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 27 | At the moment erm the way that we use computers is , of course , to use a keyboard , but I was talking to some people today who 've now developed and you can buy it , erm a system on which you can write on what you want to say , so that as long as you print fairly clearly you do n't have to learn any new typing skills . |
| 28 | The dangers for Indonesia are further reductions in the OPEC oil quota and swiftly rising domestic consumption — increasing at some 10% per year . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that amplified vibration can provide dramatic assistance in acquiring speed speechreading for some people with profound hearing loss . |