Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With turnover of £117m last year , the company accounted for only about 5% of Thorn EMI sales , but Data Sciences is number two in the UK computer services league . |
| 2 | May and June are the driest months , together accounting for only about 10% of the annual rainfall , while more than 12% falls in December alone . |
| 3 | We believe that book clubs and other mail order outlets account for only about 10% of the total sales of the books which are the cause of concern . |
| 4 | Inghams , for example , is offering a two-bedroom apartment with a huge living room overlooking the Matterhorn in the four star Hotel Ambassador in Zermatt in mid March for just over £300 for a week each , if it 's occupied by six people . |
| 5 | Accompanied by wonderful press release describing it as ‘ pound for pound the best value art book … high quality art publishing for just over 8p per page ’ . |
| 6 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 7 | It was very much part of the evidence that the banks ( although Union Discount 's expert witness claimed that they were not a bank ) continued to discount bills presented by Berg , despite the fact that Berg 's 1983 accounts were late and that the only accounts of record [ 1982 ] showed net assets of only about £250,000 against potential exposures measuring many millions . |
| 8 | Yet the amounts of money involved are small — the 66 per cent APR represents a charge for credit of only about 10p to 20p a week , on the amount commonly borrowed . |
| 9 | What it would do is close our collieries , place this country at the mercy of international coal traders , and give Britain an added trade deficit of about £900 million per annum , for a hypothetical saving of just over £1.25 per week for the average household . |
| 10 | He subsequently received a discount of just over £50 after complaining about the telephone charge . |
| 11 | ‘ But an average of just over £2.50 per week , the regular giving of church-goers , even in these difficult times , suggests potential for further improvement . ’ |
| 12 | Profits surge : Share dealing and information group ShareLink , which is planning a £30m stock market flotation next month , has announced a profits rise of just over £1m to £3.5m in the 12 months to March 31 . |
| 13 | Following Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 , the price of oil rose from $16.18 a barrel ( July price ) to an average of $26.50 in the first 24 days of August , and reached a high of just over $41 in October . |
| 14 | The purchase from Benchlane Developments shows an initial yield of just over 10pc with rent reviews within a year . |
| 15 | For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV . |
| 16 | The standard equipment includes anti-lock brakes , electric windows , mirrors and sunroof as well as a good sound system to help justify the price of just under £21,000 on the road . |
| 17 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 18 | The home counties of Bedfordshire , Berkshire and Buckinghamshire have the lowest proportions of retired , with only around 14% of the population of pensionable age , and just 5% aged 75 and over . |
| 19 | With only about 20% of the city 's beds , the Health and Hospitals Corporation in the early 1980s provided over half of all organised outpatient visits and 40% of all emergency care in the city . |
| 20 | Probably with only about 430bhp at his disposal , this was an astonishing performance by Rosberg . |
| 21 | Over 150 participants attended of varied backgrounds , with well over 20% from the school sector within Britain . |
| 22 | BBC1 is very popular , while UTV goes into well over 50pc of homes in the Republic . |
| 23 | Recorded annual precipitation ranges from just over 1000mm in parts of the Broad Bay area of Lewis to over 2400 mm on some of the higher summits of Harris . |
| 24 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 25 | After the announcement of the Conservatives ' general election victory , gilts enjoyed a period of steady demand from investors , including those from overseas , and yields fell from just under 10% to a little above 9% . |
| 26 | It seems that in the course of 1960s church attendance in the province dropped from well over 80% to 25% , while the Quebec birth-rate has become one of the lowest in Canada . |
| 27 | Last year , the Newport office , whose practice relied largely on small clients , saw its fee income drop from well over £1m to £760,000 . |
| 28 | Four hundred dealers will take part this year with prices from well under £100 into the hundred thousands , most items priced between £2,500 and £20,000 . |
| 29 | In Brunei oil and gas accounts for well over 90% of exports . |
| 30 | Most domestic soakaways are simply holes in the ground lined with hardcore ( 10mm to 150mm ) to within about 250mm of the top . |