Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEC 's HC depreciation has been only about 40% of reported HC profit after tax : and with a shorter average plant life , the CPP amount is only 50% higher . |
| 2 | Now they are only around 1% of sales . |
| 3 | They are not even people with political errors . |
| 4 | While the friend of today may become the foe of tomorrow and the friend of the day after that , there is another fundamental category opposition which lumps friends and foes together as " people like us " in contrast to strangers who are " people not like us " ; indeed they are not really people at all ! |
| 5 | The problems of big business are not about Percent for Art , they 're about your Government 's interest rate policies , about unemployment , so do n't come crying crocodile tears for big business . |
| 6 | Petrol prices are up nearly 30% in South Korea , and supplies are down by perhaps half in India . |
| 7 | Australian wool prices have jumped 17% in two weeks and are now only 18% below the reserve price of A$7 a kilo that was abandoned in February . |
| 8 | Average milk yields are now about 2,200kg at 4.1 per cent butterfat , and the main use of the Aubrac today is in extensive suckler herds in which the cows are put to Charolais bulls . |
| 9 | Average milk yields are now about 4,600kg at 3.9 per cent butterfat . |
| 10 | Those who said they would prefer the smallest possible instalments , spread over a long period , were most commonly people in lower socio-economic groups , people with current credit commitments , and people with whom the amount they said they would borrow ( if they borrowed money ) was relatively small . |
| 11 | That 's presumably why people like Rotosound , Picato and Dean Markley use them . |
| 12 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |
| 13 | The related business person 's turnover will be under the current registration threshold if ( broadly ) it is not over £36,600 in any of the last 12 calendar months and is not reasonably expected to exceed that amount in the next 30 days from any time ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1(1) ) . |
| 14 | But as any New York schoolboy will tell you , Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz . |
| 15 | It is not only species of animal that die out , but whole species of feeling . |
| 16 | In the UK the current average expenditure on food is just under £2 per person per day . |
| 17 | In practice , a zaronim is usually around 6′ by 4′ ( 1.83 × 1.22 m ) or 5′ by 3′ 6″ ( 1.52 × 1.07 m ) . |
| 18 | To return to the theses , even in the case of the 68 thesis-derived first papers appearing in SJG , this is still under 10% of the total content of the journal over the time period . |
| 19 | To return to the theses , even in the case of the 68 thesis-derived first papers appearing in SJG , this is still under 10% of the total content of the journal over the time period . |
| 20 | The price the capitalist pays for labour is still only £10 per day but the value of commodities produced by labour is now £20 per day . |
| 21 | ‘ Renewal retention of the market is probably about 50% to 55% ; so they are keeping a policyholder about two years . |
| 22 | A pack of around 1000 resistors can be had for well under £10 , which is clearly under 1p per resistor . |
| 23 | René Magritte 's work , which averaged £14,000 in 1975 , is now up 360% at £65,000 but down 38% on 1990 . |
| 24 | Unemployment is now over 17% with the proportion of long-term unemployed particularly high . |
| 25 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 26 | But it is n't just people like Prince Charles that the mother-of-three with practices in Sydney and London wants to treat . |
| 27 | Sedimentation rates for intervals containing a high proportion of laminated sediment are commonly around 10cm per thousand years ( cmkyr -1 ) ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 28 | However , gross profit was down only £2m to £94m . |
| 29 | It was found that while the annual revenue was about $400,000 , there was only about $1,000 in the account ; John Piper had received $20,000 as his percentage and $8,000 as his salary , and the remainder had been frittered away by lax and costly administration . |
| 30 | The number of viable acini isolated in pancreatitis induced by caerulein was only about 30% of that obtained from the intact pancreas . |