Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need a firm base allowing for about 30mm of sand plus the thickness of the slabs so your path will lie flush with the lawn soil level . |
| 2 | Helped by a couple of purchases north of the Border , the chain has grown from 130 at the beginning of 1992 to 209 now , with operating profits leaping from just £700,000 in 1991 to £4.9 million last year . |
| 3 | Metal barrows are a robust , yet economically priced choice , costing from around £20 to £40 . |
| 4 | ‘ At the start , a tea cup and saucer was selling for around £30 in my shop ; by the third day they were nearer £200 and still selling . ’ |
| 5 | The market is growing at over 30% per year — much faster than the rest of the software business , or information technology as a whole . |
| 6 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 7 | IBM Japan Ltd reported net profit for 1992 down 44.8% to the equivalent of $268m ; turnover slipped 1.6% to $10,750m ; the company says service business including systems integration showed double-digit growth from the previous year but that hardware sales turned in a double-digit drop ; ‘ We are still in the midst of changing course to become a service company , ’ the company said — ‘ Along with the severe state of the economy , that resulted in lower sales and profits ; ’ systems integration , accounting for just 8% of sales , grew by 40% and IBM Japan plans to increase staff there by half this year ; hardware sales accounted for 53% of the total , but the ratio could reverse this year ; the company plans to cut operating costs per employee by about 10% , further reducing headquarters staff by a quarter , reducing the number of top executives by a quarter and slashing executive bonuses in half . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the UK fertilizer industry is oligopolistic in structure , with four firms ( ICI , Norsk Hydro , UKF , and Kemira ) accounting for over 80% of market share in 1987 . |
| 9 | the service secor is vitally important , accounting for over 50% of GNP ; |
| 10 | But Ernst & Young , Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick , all of which rely on their auditing and accounting for over 50% of total earnings , saw revenue fall in real terms . |
| 11 | The Netherlands will be a major energy importer by the year 2000 with oil and gas imports probably accounting for over 40% of total demand . |
| 12 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 13 | Even with oil accounting for only 35% of total demand , net imports of oil will still be over 400 million tonnes per year by the end of the century and including coal and gas imports the actual amount of energy imports will rise between 1983 and the year 2000 by some 200 million tonnes to represent 45% of consumption . |
| 14 | Britain has the smallest private-rental sector of any industrial economy , accounting for only 7% of all tenure , compared with 45% in Germany and 33% in America . |
| 15 | In 1970 New York City handed over the management of its clinics and hospitals ( accounting for about 20% of all general care discharges at that time ) to a new Health and Hospitals Corporation , with the purpose of freeing the management of the system from city bureaucracy , and enhancing its ability to raise revenue from Medicaid , Medicare , and private health insurance . |
| 16 | Firstly , French Label Rouge poultry producers now accounting for about 20% of poultry consumption in France are required to provide trees for shade in order to qualify for the label . |
| 17 | A median of 118.6 µmol/hour of salivary bicarbonate was swalloed ( 95% CI 63.5–206.2 ) , accounting for about 25% of all bicarbonate within the oesophageal segment ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 18 | Because saliva contains relatively high concentrations of alkali , accounting for about 3% of bicarbonate within the oesophagus , it is important that amylase concentrations measured in oesophageal fluid accurately reflect salivary contamination . |
| 19 | By the end of 1948 Smith had worked out more plausible commissioning targets rising from around 562MW in the current year to 1107MW in 1949 , 1155MW in 1950 and 1600MW in 1951 . |
| 20 | They point to the remarkably slow growth in the share of the non-marketable sector in the value of marketed output , rising from around 31% between 1955 and 1960 to only 33% between 1969 and 1973 . |
| 21 | In the ensuing months B. & C. provided further sums amounting to approximately £117m. for Atlantic . |
| 22 | She is now unable to work and receives benefits , including invalidity benefit , amounting to approximately £90.00 per week . |
| 23 | People who paid rates amounting to only £200 on a house now have to pay £1 , 200 in poll tax . |
| 24 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 25 | Prices will be user-banded , irrespective of platform , starting at £150 and rising to around £400 per seat . |
| 26 | So expect around £6000 for the most basic 1-litre car rising to around £9000 for a GT model . |
| 27 | This earns some US$ 2.3 billion per year but the problem is that domestic consumption is rising at about 12% per year and this is threatening exports . |
| 28 | Although with no dividend increase and the shares languishing at just 46p after yesterday 's fall , even the patience of anonymous South Africans must be sorely tested . |
| 29 | The matter is discussed in detail in Chapter 9 , where it is suggested that the quality of stock on the shelves can only be maintained through extensive stock revision , and that most public library authorities would at present benefit from allocating at least 40% of their bookfunds to stock revision . |
| 30 | In January 1961 , he presented to Congress a batch of measures designed to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment ( then running at almost 7% of the workforce ) . |