Example sentences of "[v-ing] about [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since its establishment in 1990 some 1700 employees , representing about 30% of the workforce in the UK have participated in the Scheme . |
| 2 | Pre-tax profits jumped to £221.5m in 1992 from £186m the previous year with Steetley contributing about £50m to operating profit . |
| 3 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The explosion ripped through Callaghan 's Butcher 's in Maghull Square , Sefton , early yesterday morning causing about £20,000-worth of damage . |
| 6 | 5% tax on new cars scrapped — saving about £400 on family model . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the USA ground tuition is usually extra , averaging about £8 per hour . |
| 9 | We eat a meal costing about 50p in all . |
| 10 | New Zealand has a network of ‘ backpackers ’ — small hostels , independently run , with a variety of sleeping facilities ( dormitory , family room , double room etc ) , and costing about £5 per person per night . |
| 11 | THE Brazilian Soccer Confederation has filed a suit against the supporter who shot the signal flare in the Brazil v Chile World Cup game , seeking about £16,000 for costs incurred in defending Brazil 's case before Fifa in Zurich . |
| 12 | Reckon on paying about £25,000 for a habitable , two-bedroom detached cottage in Western Normandy . |
| 13 | Well yes , but there is a limit , which you hit when you find you are paying about £80 for two , excluding drinks . |
| 14 | The company says he is now in the position of a passive investor , owning about 16% of the stock . |
| 15 | It is quite clear that the ICAEW , with 85% of the total registrations , has an overwhelming dominance as the regulator of firms auditing listed companies , with the ICAS and ICAI each regulating about 7% of the total registrations and the ACCA regulating just over 1% . |
| 16 | MIDLAND Bank has been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling about £250,000 by the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( Imro ) for breaching its duties as trustee of six funds managed by the French-owned unit trust company Dumenil . |
| 17 | Goldstar Information & Communications Ltd , Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd , Maxon Electronics Co Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co have each signed agreements with Qualcomm Inc , San Diego for joint development of cellular telephone subscriber and infrastructure equipment based on Code Division Multiple Access technology for Korea ; the four will pay Qualcomm non-refundable preliminary fees totalling about $5m to be applied against part of their future licence fees . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In a regional study including about 10% of the Danish population we found the population relative risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease among first degree relatives of patients with either disease to be about 10 , which strongly suggests that these disorders have a genetic cause . |
| 20 | In a matter of a few months the firm moved from being an outsider in the specialist insurance audit market ( having about 15% of the top insurance companies , measured in terms of premium income ) to being one of the two market leaders . |
| 21 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 22 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the Hong Kong Government confirmed that it was spending about $1,000 per head for those deported . |
| 24 | Some enterprising yards install big washing machines and then offer a horse laundry service , usually charging about £5 per rug . |
| 25 | The short-term debt rating of NEC and its NEC Industries Netherlands BV , was cut to Prime-2 from Prime-1 , affecting about $1,300m of debt . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The agency also cut Tandy Corp 's subordinated debt and preferred stock to triple-B-plus from A-minus and Tandy Employee Share Ownership Plan 's senior notes to A-minus from single-A , affecting about $1,650m of debt . |
| 30 | Bell Atlantic Corp 's Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia has had a fillip from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which raised its senior unsecured debt rating to double-A-plus from double-A , affecting about $265m of debt , the move being made in the expectation that the company 's network modernisation and supportive regulation will help it to improve an already strong debt service capacity . |