Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
2 | Severe atrophic or hypertrophic scarring occurs in at least 2% of adults and up to half of children . |
3 | Many local authorities used the ‘ direct grant ’ schools ( which took in at least 25% of their children by merit from maintained primary schools and had fee-payers as well ) as the top rung of their local educational ladder . |
4 | Cut away at least 50mm beyond the noticeable damage , at a downward angle , so that the repair has an overlapping joint , which is stronger and allows for greater accuracy in matching . |
5 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
6 | There will be legal pressure to settle the case : successful defendants do not recover all of their costs , and the simplest of libel actions is likely to run up at least £15,000 in costs for each party prior to trial . |
7 | You 'll have to stump up at least £2,500 for the bond and leave it invested for five years . |
8 | If you are prepared to tie up at least £1,000 for two years the National & Provincial has launched Security Bond III which currently pays 11.75 per cent net . |
9 | In order to do that , a buyer would have to stump up at least £8.5m for the site . |
10 | She therefore rents her newly acquired property during this period : ‘ My four-bedroom apartment can easily be let out for £1,500 per week gross , which , less Spanish tax and rental commission , works out at approximately £1,000 per week , which covers my community charges and management fees . ’ |
11 | ‘ Now , your salary works out at approximately £1460 per month , gross . |
12 | Be warned , however , that while outputting slides is relatively cheap skilled operators are often charged out at up £50 per hour ! |
13 | The losses for the bottom 50% average out at nearly £8.50 per family … while the top 10% have gained nearly £40 per family … the bottom half of the population has lost £6.6 billion , of which £5.6 billion has gone to the top 10% ; indeed –4. – billion has gone to the top 5% . |
14 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
15 | Capital and energy costs together would come out at about $25 per barrel to give it a dose of 2.5 Mrad for 2–3 minutes , which would be highly competitive with incineration . |
16 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
17 | Some firms charge by the hour , roughly between £6.50 and £10 ; others by the job , which can work out at about £80 to £120-plus for a four-hour clean |
18 | Miss Emma Nicholson , MP for Devon West , a member of the delegation , said that would work out at about £20,000 for each victim . |
19 | On sentry duty one night , in the magazine of all places , I propped myself with my rifle on guard in a corner and somehow or other managed to let my feet out at about 30° to 35° to the vertical , and I fell asleep . |
20 | In the Midlands and south of England values average out at roughly £20-£30 per thousand acres , but although this represents an average of about 6d. an acre — which was near enough the going rate for rent — it can not be employed as a general conversion factor , for while it may be applicable to a county or other major division , the ratios for individual parishes and hamlets are subject to extreme variations . |
21 | The cost of moving a 22-tonne load by road worked out at roughly 95p per mile , of which 60p were fixed costs and 35p variable costs . |
22 | Bedding experts reckon that you should n't pay less than £400 or so , which may sound like a lot , but actually works out at under 20p per night over a 10–15 year lifespan . |
23 | ‘ If one averages this out at around £41 per soldier per week for 1,000 troops the annual cost works out at a mere £2.1m — a long way short of the £365m claimed for propaganda purposes . ’ |
24 | At the other extreme is the voluntary but draconian Dutch ‘ covenant ’ with industry that binds companies to reduce the weight of packaging to below the 1986 level , to end all landfilling and incineration of packaging , and to take back at least 90% of all non-reusable packaging — all by the end of the decade . |
25 | The three-chip set is out now at about $100 in quantities of 10,000 . |
26 | The three-chip set is out now at about $100 in quantities of 10,000 . |
27 | Seven Seas Health for Beauty Avocado and Passion Flower Oils are available from leading chemists everywhere at just £3.99 for one month 's supply . |
28 | A situation where at least 27% of libraries appear to provide virtually no systematic training at all ( see Table 2 ) is inefficient and inequitable . |
29 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |