Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you can enjoy it all for the special inclusive tariff of just £199 for two . |
| 2 | THE Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno world title clash has received a single box office boost of nearly £28,000 for the fight at Cardiff Arms Park on |
| 3 | With an 850cc fuel-injected engine , it will have a top speed of around 95mph with acceleration to 60 in about 11 seconds . |
| 4 | Although empathy has attracted considerable criticisms ( and perhaps a degree of misunderstanding ) a key objective in history teaching involves appreciation of how people in the past thought and felt . |
| 5 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 6 | The consequences for arbitrage risk were also generally small , and 88% of the cases fell within the range 0.1% to -0.1% ( that is an extra profit or loss of about £60 per contract ) . |
| 7 | The company , which made a pre-tax loss of almost £69m in 1991 , foreshadowed a ‘ steady ’ improvement in results this year from the hard-hit general insurance sector as industry capacity falls and increases in premium rates gather momentum . |
| 8 | Founded in 1970 , the company reported a revenue of over $80m in 1989 , with environmental audits among the most rapidly growing aspects of its business . |
| 9 | We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property . |
| 10 | I believe England have trumped the Indians with a bid of about £300,000 to each of the nine major Test playing nations . |
| 11 | The different extrapolations of the normal-state resistivity produce an uncertainty of about 20% in ( 0 ) . |
| 12 | For flats and houses , if we assume an average rent of approximately £35 per week , this means a student will have £16.19 per week for food , heating , clothing , insurance and entertainment etc . |
| 13 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 14 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 15 | It is essential when screwing a mirror to a wall that the wall is flat , and there should be a gap of around 3mm behind the mirror to allow it to ‘ breathe ’ . |
| 16 | There has to be a gap of about 0.008in. in the magnetic circuit and this is best introduced by sticking a double thickness of ordinary drafting tape to the pole faces of one of the E-cores . |
| 17 | Leave an uncovered gap of about 10mm at the top . |
| 18 | The latter figure reflected both the absence of costs due to taxation — UK investors having to pay stamp duty — and the abolition of fixed commissions in 1975 , leading to a cut of around 50% in the commission rates on institutional deals . |
| 19 | ( Price 1979 quotes a figure of nearly 73% of papers receiving only one citation . |
| 20 | Updating the court 's guideline figure of £75,000 for an average case of tetraplegia set for April 1985 produces a figure of about £110,000 for December 1992 . |
| 21 | In 1989 an additional Advanced Sign Language Training Programme , open to deaf and hearing students from all EC countries , was launched with a grant of roughly £400,000 from the European Social Fund . |
| 22 | Thus such a section placed in front of any number of correctly terminated constant-k or m-derived T-sections presents an almost constant input resistance of over 85% of the pass band . |
| 23 | What none of them chose to believe was Doctor Who 's initial budget of just £2,500 per episode , and that the lavish costumes and sets for the historical serials were hired out from theatrical costumiers or were hand-me-downs from previous BBC period dramas . |
| 24 | I 'd recommend padding a budget of under £1,000 by at least fifty per cent . |
| 25 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 26 | The second is a reduction of almost 50% in the heat lost through your window area , resulting in overall savings in your heating bills of around 10% . |
| 27 | Solar power costs about £2.26 a watt — a reduction of about £6 since 1980 . |
| 28 | Other physical effects of training include a reduction in blood fat levels and almost certainly a reduction of about 20% in recurrence rate of myocardial infarction and , in the long-term , mortality . |
| 29 | Oral and intragastric infusions of beer were found to be potent stimuli of gastric acid secretion , with a response of over 95% of that produced by pentagastrin . |
| 30 | The agreement signed on 12 May 1977 between Glitterbest and Virgin Records gave McLaren and the Pistols an initial payment of just £15,000 for the British rights for material sufficient for one Sex Pistols album , to be paid in twelve instalments . |