Example sentences of "at about [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
2 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
3 | With memory widely advertised at about £30 per Mb I thought this would be the perfect Christmas present to myself . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
6 | In the UK this will be at about 67° to the horizontal , but it is not critical , as the maximum is quite broad and not very sensitive to angle . |
7 | At about 2° above absolute zero — 2K — liquid helium develops the peculiar ability to flow through tiny holes without friction . |
8 | You do n't have to use ready-made cable lengths ; ; you can buy a drum of thin Ethernet cable ( RG-58/50Ohm ) at about 50p per metre , and make up your own cable lengths . |
9 | Prices start at about £681 for a single Lit Bâteau with curved head and foot in cherrywood , up to £3,554 for an ornately carved Louis XV style in rosewood . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Prices for chairs start at about £50 for an elegant slatted chair in a choice of finishes , including a super silvery anodised version . |
12 | Capital and energy costs together would come out at about $25 per barrel to give it a dose of 2.5 Mrad for 2–3 minutes , which would be highly competitive with incineration . |
13 | Mansell locked his brakes up and span off , his car turning backwards and colliding into the wall at about 75mph in a cloud of debris which included his right front wheel . |
14 | The total cost of each additional job is estimated at about £8,500 in the zones , and about £23,000 for additional jobs within the local area as a whole . |
15 | This temperature difference may in fact have significance in that the WLF equation has an infinity for a temperature about 50° below Tg and there is some evidence that the extrapolation of plots of equilibrium data below Tg gives intercepts at about 50° below Tg . |
16 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
17 | Prices start at about £100 per metre for standard models ; fan-assisted convection designs are also available . |
18 | He was a relatively wealthy man ; his annual income , from both his publishing salary and his royalties , was approximately £4,000 , and in the early months of this year his income from the New York production of The Cocktail Party was estimated at about £570 per week : this was no doubt why , in June , he was looking for an accountant . |
19 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
20 | With ( AT ) 5 GC(AT) 5 ( Figure 2e ) all the ApT sites are cut at about 20% of the central GC , except for the ApT on the 5'-side of the centre which is cleaved at 60% of the GC . |
21 | Conversely , IDC forecasts that the world market is set to grow at about 20% per year between now and 1996 , by which time it will be worth $58,600m . |
22 | The soundboard grain runs at about 40° to the spine , i.e. approximately at right angles to the bridge alignment . |
23 | The Austrian fleece is one reason why Phoenix are able to offer Windstopper on some of their jackets at about £15 to £20 less than others on the market . |
24 | As was shown in table 9.2 , Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest were all assessed as having similar expenditure needs for 1985/6 , at about £500 per head of population ; Hackney and Westminster have more or less equal assessments at about £670 per head . |
25 | The green product is now available in Canada at about $14 for a 100 millilitre bottle that will last for ten days — long enough , he says , to cure anyone 's smoking habit . |
26 | As was shown in table 9.2 , Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest were all assessed as having similar expenditure needs for 1985/6 , at about £500 per head of population ; Hackney and Westminster have more or less equal assessments at about £670 per head . |
27 | Miss Emma Nicholson , MP for Devon West , a member of the delegation , said that would work out at about £20,000 for each victim . |
28 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
29 | Some firms charge by the hour , roughly between £6.50 and £10 ; others by the job , which can work out at about £80 to £120-plus for a four-hour clean |
30 | Prices run at about £1 per litre of capacity , about half that for non-budget sacks . |