Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 2 | As a senior member of the banking committee in the late 1980s , he had intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating , while soliciting about $1,000,000 in political contributions from Keating 's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ; 38223 ] . |
| 3 | It is in fact the French Simmental but larger than the Swiss Simmental , averaging perhaps 149cm in the bull ( 140cm in the cow ) and weighing |
| 4 | Matheson 's first round victory over former world No.8 Hlasek , now down at 46 , was easily the finest result of the Scotsman 's career , guaranteeing nearly £3,000 in prize money treble his previous best cheque . |
| 5 | By the eleventh century they were generally no bigger than the unimproved Iron Age cattle , averaging about 107cm in height , and they were short-horned . |
| 6 | We eat a meal costing about 50p in all . |
| 7 | The USS Chemicals company in Ironton , Ohio has been saving around $100,000 in raw-material costs through reducing air emissions by 100,000 lbs per year . |
| 8 | Boulogne-sur-Mer : ABOUT 150 masked fishermen attacked two fish processing plants near Boulogne yesterday , destroying nearly 140 tons of fish and causing around £650,000 in damage . |
| 9 | Minneapolis , Minnesota-based Network Systems Corp reports that it has now completed its previously announced acquisition of Bus-Tech Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts manufacturer of interconnect controllers , paying out $24.5m in cash . |
| 10 | Just days after paying out $400m in a record settlement , Ernst & Young is facing another claim , this time for $55m . |
| 11 | WHITBREAD , the brewer and retailer , yesterday warned that mounting bad debts in its economically-troubled heartland of southern England will force it to make provisions totalling about £47m in the full-year to the end of February . |
| 12 | A third is reportedly facing around $1bn in outstanding claims , and nearly all the top 20 firms are facing claims of some sort . |
| 13 | Added Det Con Roberts : ‘ It was only later that the lady realised that her purse , containing around £220 in cash , had been taken . ’ |
| 14 | THE Scottish Arts Council has awarded grants totalling over £30,000 in its first allocation of funds for new music commissions for 1993/94 . |
| 15 | Table 3.3 Turnover in British government securities 1985 – 1991 Since the reform , the number of bargains per day has averaged nearly 3,300 with the average size of bargain reaching nearly £1½m in 1990 . |
| 16 | Philips Electronics NV has had the ratings on its long-term senior debt affirmed at Baa-1 and its short-term debt at Prime-2 by Moody 's Investors Service Inc , affecting about $1,550m in debt . |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's position is not seen by Standard & Poor 's Corp as likely to deteriorate any further any time soon : the ratings agency affirmed IBM and its units ' double-A-minus senior debt and A-1-plus commercial paper ratings , affecting about $19,000m in debt . |
| 18 | THE Shamen are shelling out £10,000 in a bid to help victims of the war in Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | Between 1964 and 1983 , turnout in general elections failed to reach 80% , falling below 73% in 1970 , October 1974 , and 1983 . |
| 20 | Industrial output has stabilised , too , after falling over 60% in 1991–92 , the most precipitous economic collapse in Eastern Europe ( having fallen that far , it could hardly have got worse ) . |
| 21 | How many married couples are there currently sitting as MPs in the House of Commons ? |
| 22 | In November Marvin D. Gitelson and Max Chaikin , two Washington real estate dealers , were charged with obtaining fraudulently $1,200,000 in HUD loans and with conspiring to sell drugs to real estate contacts . |
| 23 | And a Scottish Partner Centre has also been set up to attract companies that are interested in either expanding or setting up headquarters in the region . |
| 24 | Mr Ritblat said he and his fellow directors were showing their commitment to New British Land by investing almost £12million in cash into the new company , which he said would concentrate on the UK but also look for overseas opportunities provided by the creation of the Single European market . |
| 25 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 26 | Talking of money , the Social Secretary succeeded in raising nearly £50 in sponsorship at the Bishop 's Castle Carnival Triathlon and a stall manned by willing preservation group members raised a further £30 at the Carnival , so not a bad start for our fund raising efforts . |