Example sentences of "run [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , a plan based only on the rebate probably needs to run for about five years to be practical , otherwise the charges will eat up too much of the benefits . |
| 2 | The computer system at the Budapest Stock Exchange has now been up and running for about two weeks , and according to chief system analyst Andrei Bagi , there has been only one minor teething problem . |
| 3 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 4 | First , get a copy of your local quarter mill map ( preferably laminated ) and find a suitable road-route running for about 25 to 40 miles ( quite sufficient for a first attempt ) from somewhere close to your base airfield . |
| 5 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 6 | been running for about half an hour or so , you know when you come to a junction flicking on and off . |
| 7 | Erm want to run to about half past eight or |
| 8 | running to about three foot back . |
| 9 | With inflation expected to run at about 5 per cent , these boosts represent real gains . |
| 10 | Estimates of actual job reductions seem to run at about 30 per cent . |
| 11 | Take Britain 's case with a deficit running at about £20bn a year . |
| 12 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 13 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 14 | With annual sales running at about £1 million , Intelligence ( UK ) now owns two subsidiaries — Herbvale , which produces software , and Merton Electronics , which makes electronic components . |
| 15 | Annual investment in renewal is in fact running at about £205 million . |
| 16 | The income from that sale , plus a little rent for pastures rented out to other farmers , produced a pitiful income which , when the first documentary presented Hannah to an amazed public in 1973 , was running at about £5.50p a week . |
| 17 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 18 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Microgen Holdings Plc is moving into Norway : its Capella AB Swedish subsidiary is paying the equivalent of £1.14m , £950,000 of it upfront , the rest after 12 months , for the computer output microfilm business of EDB A/S : the business has annual turnover running at about £2.85m , and assets are valued at £76,000 . |
| 20 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 21 | At first the load was trifling , annual expenditure in the 1950s running at about £1 million , rising to around £5 million annually in the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 23 | Since that flying start , sales have been running at about $800 a day — unprecedented in Azerbaijan . |
| 24 | A survey in Charity Trends ( 1990 ) of the top 400 companies in the United Kingdom showed corporate support as a share of profit running at about 0.6 per cent . |
| 25 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 also took this view and promised to reduce the rate of inflation which was then running at about 12 per cent by reducing the rate of growth of M3 . |
| 26 | By the early 1800s it had even become a staple food , with annual consumption running at about 10 kilos per person in Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ Inflation is rife , currently running at about 700pc . |
| 28 | Inflation surged 2,500 per cent in 1992 and is currently running at about 30 per cent a month . |
| 29 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 30 | ‘ To put our industry in context , the balance of payments deficit is running at about £13 billion . |