Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ideally this card should be about 60mm × 13mm if the viewing distance is 1 metre , and scaled for other distances .
2 Water changes should be around 30% per week .
3 You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks .
4 The loans must be below 75% of the purchase price .
5 One possible definition of I 1 is the initial margin payment , which might be about 4% of the price of the future ( Bear , 1972 ; Brooks and Hand , 1988 ; Francis , 1991 ; Gressis , Vlahos and Philippatos , 1984 ; Levy , 1987 ; Niederhoffer and Zeckhauser , 1980 ; Panton and Joy , 1978 ; Robichek , Cohn and Pringle , 1972 ; Schrock , 1971 ; Turner , Houston and Shepherd , 1992 ; Yau , Savanayana and Schneeweis , 1990 ) , while Lukac , Brorsen and Irwin ( 1988a ; 1988b ) and Marshall and Herbst ( 1992 ) defined the investment as the initial margin plus the funds set aside to cover subsequent margin payments .
6 While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus .
7 Sony 's SuperMicro Division forecast that the combined Sony-NEC share of the workstation market would be over 50% by 1993–94 .
8 The actual cost of the loan , over 15 years , would be nearly £50,000 by the time you had paid it in full .
9 The price per head for bed and breakfast would be c. £20 per head which is good value , I am told , given rates elsewhere in the centre of town during the Festival .
10 If present marriage rates continue , then the expected proportions of men and women married by age 50 would be around 77% for men and 78% for women , compared with 93% of women and 96% of men in 1971 .
11 When we considered the impact that such a system would have on my city of Leeds , when it was thought that it would be about £187 per head , we realised that that in itself would be disastrous .
12 The Secretary of State will undoubtedly be aware that Mr. Malcolm Edwards told the Select Committee on Energy last week that the cost of gas for generation of electricity would be about 2.7p per kilowatt hour compared with 2.2p for coal .
13 The price would be about $25,000 in a place like Park Forest , outside Chicago .
14 So the approximate possible effect of birth weight on FEV 1 would be about 2% of total FEV 1 .
15 The party 's accumulated deficit — made up roughly half-and-half of overdraft and term-borrowings — will be nearly £10m by the end of this financial year .
16 Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course .
17 One pond will be approximately 8′ × 6′ × 3′ deep and the other 10′ × 8′ × 3′ deep .
18 The cost of these calendars is significantly less than that obtainable from other sources and will be approximately 8p per calendar .
19 The DSS estimate that the average assessment will be about £40 per week ( compared with £25 now ) and that in about 25 per cent of cases the bill will be payable in full .
20 Customs themselves predict that the introductory costs of meeting the single market requirements will be about £100m to British companies .
21 In a particularly difficult matter which necessitated a partner dealing with it throughout then the rate would be £108 per hour , and in a simple matter which was dealt with by a legal executive or newly qualified solicitor , the rate will be about £75 per hour .
22 If AFRC is unable to sell any of its three redundant research sites it will be about £7 in the red next year , according to its director general , Prof Tom Blundell .
23 The total spending will be around £6000 with about £2500 coming from the Village Association and Tennis Club to be offset by various grants from the sources which the Tennis Club has contacted .
24 The total spending will be around £6000 with about £2500 coming from the Village Association and Tennis Club to be offset by various grants from the sources which the Tennis Club has contacted .
25 Andrea Vecchiotti , the managing director of Otis , a maker of lifts and escalators , which is building a $10m plant in Penang , says that direct labour costs will be only 2% of the cost of producing a lift on the island .
26 Most of the distribution fee , which can be around 30% of the film 's rental income , goes to the studio .
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