Example sentences of "increase [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The synfuel contribution in the US is likely to increase from about 6 million tonnes of oil equivalent ( MTOE ) in 1983 to 20 MTOE in 1990 and perhaps 40 MTOE in 2000 . |
| 2 | The plan envisages tax increases worth about $500 billion and spending reductions on many popular programmes over four years to cut the deficit . |
| 3 | In contrast , the average peroxide concentration increases from about 600 p.p.t.v. to about 900p.p.t.v. between mid morning and late afternoon , followed by an overnight loss . |
| 4 | During the second month of pregnancy the embryo increases from about 5 to around 30 millimetres in length . |
| 5 | For certain stations in the United States Langbein and Schumm ( 1958 ) have quantified this in terms of sediment yield and shown that this increases to about 300 tons per square km ( 800 tons per square mile ) with a rainfall of about 371 mm ( 15 in ) per year and then decreases as increasing vegetation cover protects the surface . |
| 6 | In the following decade its collection of plants increased from about 3000 to nearly 6000 , largely as a result of his correspondence with more than fifty botanists throughout the world . |
| 7 | The preference for polling has increased from about 50 per cent 60 years ago to about 95 per cent today , presumably by selection to suit management systems in which the cattle are housed for as much as eight months in the winter . |
| 8 | Drop-out levels at this level improved after the early years of the 1980s but repetition rates have increased from about 6 per cent in 1975 to almost 11 per cent in 1985 and 1988 . |
| 9 | Major refolded folds and ductile shear zones were generated as temperatures and pressures increased from about 200°C at 3 kilobars to about 550°C at 7 kilobars . |
| 10 | Panels a-e show an e.p.s.p. that increased from about 90 to 210μV ( a ) . |
| 11 | Using equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) with n=3 showed that P increased from about 0.2 to 0.4 ( d ) , whereas there was only a small increase in v 1 ( e ) . |
| 12 | The amplitude increased from about 500 to 950μV then gradually declined ( f ) . |
| 13 | Christopher Foster and his colleagues estimate that total local expenditure in Great Britain , both current and capital , ‘ increased from about 3 per cent of GNP in 1870 to about 18 per cent in 1975 ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 14 | The population of Pimhill Hundred , in which Myddle lay , rose by two-thirds between 1563 and 1672 ; Myddle 's population during that period increased from about 270 to about 450 . |
| 15 | Using the ancient method , the maximum zinc content was about 28 per cent , but as the process developed this increased to about 33 per cent . |
| 16 | A total output of about 25,000 army and air force decrypts per month from Hut 6 was increased to about 48,000 each month between the autumn of 1943 and the end of the war . |
| 17 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
| 18 | Third , the proportion of large DN cells has increased to about 50% of the total cell number . |
| 19 | ATMOSPHERIC CO 2 concentration was 160 to 200μmolmol -1 during the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM ; about 18,000 years ago ) , rose to about 275μmolmol -1 10,000 years ago , and has increased to about 350 μmolmol -1 since 1800 ( ref. 4 ) . |
| 20 | From about fifty families in c.1150 , the nobility of the Bordelais had increased to about 200 by 1300 . |
| 21 | From a pre-industrial concentration of 288 ppb , levels increased to about 310 ppb by 1990 with a current annual increase of 0.25 per cent . |
| 22 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 23 | It only increased from about 37 in 1801 to 42 by 1842 ( Farr 's First English Life Table based on census and vital registration ) . |
| 24 | Oh , it 's a basic wage but it increased to about two pounds fifty or something , because of the status of the job . |
| 25 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 26 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 27 | Tropospheric ( surface ) ozone Short-lived but increasing at about 2 per cent a year ; 12 per cent of the current greenhouse effect . |
| 28 | Indeed , this may grossly under-represent the present situation : the rapid spread of UNIX-based systems seems to facilitate competition and , at the time of writing , performance of workstations per unit cost seems to be increasing at about 50 per cent per annum . |
| 29 | As the cost of hardware continues to drop ( productivity is increasing at about 30 per cent per year in that industry ) individualised computer programming and time-sharing would become expensive relics , he told the conference . |
| 30 | That 's increasing at about 15 per cent a year , which is a much faster growth rate than our domestic operations . |