Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent of British defence cuts is still anyone 's guess , even in Whitehall ; but the Defence Manufacturers ' Association reckons real annual spending will fall to about 75% of 1990 's figure within five years . |
| 2 | ( The average amount which people would actually have to pay after allowing for relief and benefits would fall to under £175 in Great Britain as a whole . ) |
| 3 | ‘ And too many sailors target the very sought-after minority of waterside properties , ’ whereas they can live on the outskirts of somewhere like Truro or surrounding areas ( where new five-bedroom executive houses have dropped to around £90,000 from £140,000 and large Victorian detached houses are £110,000 ) and have moorings within a couple of miles ' reach . |
| 4 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 5 | The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 . |
| 6 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |
| 7 | The £9,500 of 1911 equates to about £500,000 at 1990 values . |
| 8 | DEC 's interest is fuelled by the fact that the Aberdeen Group in Boston projects that the market for computational chemistry products will grow to over $2,000m in 1996 from about $500m in 1990 . |
| 9 | Our Euro Disney selection roared to nearly £17 at one stage and you could have made £3 a share profit then . |
| 10 | Our bill , with service , Sancerre and a good house claret from a very decent list , came to about £74 for two . |
| 11 | This walk climbs to almost 1,000′ on the moorland of Parc Mawr . |
| 12 | Mains gas is supplied to around 85% of British homes : it 's available ‘ on tap ’ ( there 's no need to store it ready for use ) ; it 's clean ; it 's easy to control ; and the equipment that uses it needs very little maintenance . |
| 13 | Dinner for two should run to around £30 for a starter , a pasta dish , sweet , coffee and a bottle of good wine . |
| 14 | However , it would be unwise to rely on the initiatives of local authorities alone , because of the severe financial restrictions under which they operate ( I found out today for example that Edinburgh District Council 's ENTIRE budget for maintainance of paths and bridleways amounts to only £5,000 per year ) , but also because many routes of interest to cyclists coincide with trunk road routes , which are D o T responsibility . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , we have nearly 2,000 CTC members in Scotland and assuming an average of around £20 per member , this amounts to almost £40,000 of income , of which our request for £750 seems modest in the extreme , particularly since we now pay the subscriptions I mentioned . |
| 16 | Like the previous species it grows to about 20cm in the wild , but is more likely to attain half this size in captivity . |
| 17 | Between December and April , the temperature averages between 15°C and 21°C ( 59°F to 70°F ) ; it then gradually increases to around 21°C to 24°C ( 70°F to 75°F ) between July and September , and drops again to an average between October and December of 18°C to 21°C ( 64°F to 70°F ) . |
| 18 | Yet , as he disclosed yesterday , he prefers to stick to about £3,000 per commission . |
| 19 | In Britain , closed shop arrangements currently extend to just 20% of all employees , under half of all union members . |
| 20 | In the ensuing months B. & C. provided further sums amounting to approximately £117m. for Atlantic . |
| 21 | She is now unable to work and receives benefits , including invalidity benefit , amounting to approximately £90.00 per week . |
| 22 | People who paid rates amounting to only £200 on a house now have to pay £1 , 200 in poll tax . |
| 23 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 24 | Prices will be user-banded , irrespective of platform , starting at £150 and rising to around £400 per seat . |
| 25 | So expect around £6000 for the most basic 1-litre car rising to around £9000 for a GT model . |
| 26 | The survey found we pay £42 for a basket of 22 everyday items compared to just £20.40 in Mexico . |
| 27 | Radio continues to be a big success , taking 15pc of the national advertising budget , compared to around 2pc in the UK . |
| 28 | Cook puts 86% of Clinton 's total in the probable column compared to only 57% for Bush . |
| 29 | It was discovered that black girls gain 34% more bone density during puberty , compared to only 11% in white girls . |
| 30 | Furthermore , they showed that over 80% of the content words were fixated , compared to only 40% of the function words . |