Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecommunications Plc has placed contracts worth over £4m with Chubb Safe Equipment Co for the supply of high security cash compartments for its payphones : Chubb says it has added a dedicated production line at its Wolverhampton plant for their manufacture . |
| 2 | And , according to KPMG Forensic Accounting 's ‘ fraud barometer ’ , the South East and London have been hit heaviest , accounting for 69% of all charged cases worth over £100,000 between January 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 3 | We should , as our French guest realised but was too polite to say , have eaten in lovely hilltop Gassin where vine-hung terrace restaurants offered menus gastronomiques and very chic settings for around £20 per head . |
| 4 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 5 | Farmers , the second largest car insurer in the state , had previously sought a 5.9 per cent increase to offset projected losses of about $100m on high-risk drivers . |
| 6 | The outfit has moved from losses of around £1.7m in calendar year 1991 , to an as-yet unfinalised figure in the black — which should be well in excess of £1m — for 1992 . |
| 7 | With funds of about £150,000 from the district and regional councils and a similar amount from the private sector , the event ‘ just about breaks even ’ each year , a spokesman said . |
| 8 | A six months subscription costs just £20 , one year £38 and two years only £70 — savings of over 50% on the cover price . |
| 9 | They are typically fine-boned and long-lived , and the cows average 122cm at the withers and 400kg , with milk yields of about 4,700kg at 6.25 per cent butterfat ( more than 7 per cent in some cases ) . |
| 10 | Persian and Turkish terms respectively ( meaning cushion ) , applied to small bedside rugs of about 3′ by 2′ ( 0.91 × 0.61 m ) . |
| 11 | Bending is accompanied by an increase of these parameters to about 5° at the met box centres , and higher values towards the ends of the duplex . |
| 12 | Turnouts of over 50% in individual wards were almost commonplace , and in only one ward throughout the metropolitan areas ( Elswick , Newcastle upon Tyne ) did fewer than one in three of the electorate go to the polls . |
| 13 | Some plans have minimum lump-sum investments of just £300 to £500 , while Prosperity ( phone 0800 521546 ) offers the regular savings scheme with the lowest monthly subscription I have come across at just £10 a month . |
| 14 | The government sets the local price of petrol absurdly low while imposing taxes of over 80% on the company 's revenues . |
| 15 | Households with income in the middle 20% pay direct taxes of around 22% of their earnings , and receive cash benefits worth 16% . |
| 16 | This Consolidated Fund revenue ( 169.8bn ) , together with Social Security receipts ( 38.7bn ) , local authority and business rates ( some 14.1bn ) and the community charge ( 8.0bn ) plus other miscellaneous receipts , including those from privatization , are necessary to pay for the government 's expenditure plans of around 258bn in 1992/93 . |
| 17 | His Billingham-based operation , Century bought 185 pubs for around £60m from the same brewer last November . |
| 18 | Of course she really owes the whole of the second £30 to the lender ; but from the point of view of her budgeting , she is paying £33 in instalments for under £16 in her hand . |
| 19 | In fact , most industrial countries passed this figure over twenty-five years ago , with tax ratios of over 40% for some countries in the 1970s , yet they experienced low inflation and rapid growth of real incomes . |
| 20 | Position the pieces leaving gaps of about 18mm between each . |
| 21 | The narrowing on its own was unlikely however to reduce speeds significantly , so pinch points were placed at intervals of about 50m along the road . |
| 22 | The only tough questions at the meeting came from three Dutch investment advisers who were representing family trusts with about £25million of Bond group convertible bonds . |
| 23 | The application of the Government 's national bands will mean a loss of grant for London of about £300 million a year , which works out in terms of people 's bills at about £60 per adult per year and £100 in some constituencies . |
| 24 | A professional product that is available from Lamaur appointed salons at around £8.15 for 1 litre . |
| 25 | On July 31 and August 1 you can enjoy all the spectacular rides at Alton Towers for just £7.99 for adults , £7.50 for children [ under 14 ] and £5.00 for veterans — children under four are free . |
| 26 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |
| 27 | Accommodation can be arranged at local bed and breakfasts for about £15 per night . |
| 28 | Figures are presented for Surrey , with the lowest GRE per head of any Authority , for three Authorities with fairly high assessed expenditure needs of around £500 per head ( Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest ) , and for two Authorities with among the highest of all assessed needs , at about £675 ( Hackney and Westminster ) . |
| 29 | The idea was to persuade 1,000 ‘ rich radicals ’ with incomes of over £12,000 per year ( the Walsh criterion for being rich ) to put up £1,000 each . |
| 30 | When , in a major exercise , Rank Xerox switched a number of specialised staff to operating as teleworking freelance consultants ( involving setup costs of just £1,300 per head and achieving savings in office expenses of £17,500 per worker in the first year of operation ) , sending instructions by electronic mail was not enough : a ‘ gossip line ’ was introduced so that they could keep up on office news . |