Example sentences of "[noun] is some [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weak force is some thousand times weaker than the electromagnetic force , and 100 000 times more feeble than the strong nuclear force . |
| 2 | The local relief is relatively subdued but the mean elevation is some 5000 m with isolated masses of probable volcanic origin rising to between 6000 and 7000 m ; the Tibetan Plateau is thus by far the highest plateau of significant extent on the Earth 's surface . |
| 3 | Of all the National Trust gardens in Cornwall , it is probably the least favoured climatically ; the coast is some nine miles away which reduces the maritime influence and the south-west corner of Bodmin Moor is even nearer . |
| 4 | Including nuclear plant currently planned , potential nuclear generating capacity , excluding 6 gas-cooled reactors and 3 fast breeder reactors ( 2 under construction ) , France 's potential nuclear generating capacity is some 65,000 megawatts . |
| 5 | There are local golf courses at Staverton and Farthingstone , and the Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit is some 15 miles distant . |
| 6 | Overall the fault system has a length of 1200km , but the average breadth of the fault zone is some 500 km and it forms a very diffuse boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates . |
| 7 | Authoritative sources have revealed that his daughter Miss Jade Jagger is some four months away from her confinement . |
| 8 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
| 9 | The water is some 20 feet down : a pool fed by a diverted underground stream . |
| 10 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 11 | The ornamental fountain is some 6 feet tall and carved from marble . |
| 12 | The new novel is some 500 pages of a thriller starring a lecherous literary journalist , a young Cyril Connolly as it were , making his way in London . |
| 13 | It is , for example , little use when recording a chemical spill into an Egyptian river to have entered into the appropriate field ‘ the Nile ’ — after all , this river is some 6480 km long ! |
| 14 | The poem is some 5500 tines long , but the first 2000 are Hoccleve 's personal introduction , purporting to explain how he came to write the rest . |
| 15 | Unspoilt and peaceful , the island of Phuket is some 400 miles south of Bangkok , a relaxing getaway from the bustle of the big city . |
| 16 | The current well is some four kilometres to the north-west of this discovery . |
| 17 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 18 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |
| 19 | The appendix is some 60 pages in itself and includes details of Windows technical support and Compuserve , Windows Information Resources and a very detailed Index . |
| 20 | The level plug is some three inches lower and is a ¼ inch square plug on the back of the transfer casing , hidden by the overdrive unit . |
| 21 | It is true that the interest rate now paid by the government on all its debt is some 300 basis points ( three percentage points ) above current bill rates . |
| 22 | The Group 's current average life of gross debt is some 5.5 years . |
| 23 | Well I do n't know the exact date but I believe this house is some thirty years old , so it was built about nineteen fifty three , fifty two , fifty three |
| 24 | It is best to mount the camera on a tripod so that the lens is some two inches above the spawning stone and the camera is placed such that the field of view is sufficiently large to capture both fish during spawning . |
| 25 | The slate is some 4 kilometres thick , and comprises submillimetric two-laminae couplets of fine siltstone and silty mudstone . |
| 26 | Greve in Chianti is some 18 miles from the city — a town where the houses smile out at you above colourful balconies brimming with geranium pots . |
| 27 | Comparison with the Raman spectrum of the gas shows that the strong Raman band in this region is some 20 cm -1 lower in frequency than the observed IR band . |