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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Average milk yields are now about 4,600kg at 3.9 per cent butterfat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 's presumably why people like Rotosound , Picato and Dean Markley use them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the UK the current average expenditure on food is just under £2 per person per day . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Renewal retention of the market is probably about 50% to 55% ; so they are keeping a policyholder about two years . |
| 15 | A pack of around 1000 resistors can be had for well under £10 , which is clearly under 1p per resistor . |
| 16 | René Magritte 's work , which averaged £14,000 in 1975 , is now up 360% at £65,000 but down 38% on 1990 . |
| 17 | Unemployment is now over 17% with the proportion of long-term unemployed particularly high . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sedimentation rates for intervals containing a high proportion of laminated sediment are commonly around 10cm per thousand years ( cmkyr -1 ) ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The number of viable acini isolated in pancreatitis induced by caerulein was only about 30% of that obtained from the intact pancreas . |
| 22 | In 1982/83 public expenditure was 47% of GDP ; in 1992/93 it was only around 42% of GDP . |
| 23 | In 1980 , UK bank-lending to industry was only around 22% of GDP , whereas in France the figure was 30% , in West Germany almost 34% and in Japan around 51% . |
| 24 | The total direct expenditure on training of our sample was just under £280,000 in 1983/4 , and estimated at just under £300,000 for 1984/5 . |
| 25 | By 1973 , there was still only 20% of the total from terra firme , but towards the end of the decade the proportion was over 40% , mainly C. odorata and S. macrophylla ; only some 20–40 species were acceptable to sawmills . |
| 26 | Henry 's total ordinary income at the close of his reign was probably about £113,000 to which the customs contributed £40,000 . |
| 27 | But he was as much an.anachronism at St Matthew 's Court as was the church he represented . |
| 28 | It was surely only people of diminished responsibility who found their lives being taken over in this way . |
| 29 | The political temperature throughout the spring was very high , and Labour 's lead in the polls was consistently over 20% in the month following their dramatic gain in the Mid-Staffordshire parliamentary by-election in late March . |
| 30 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |