Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was known as the King 's Plate Prize and was made in about 1750 . |
| 2 | at the Washington chemical works , where large-scale trials of his tower were made in about 1859 . |
| 3 | My bandsaw is a classic made in about 1960 by Robinsons . |
| 4 | It was made in about 1880 for an ‘ Amazon ’ to keep her hats in . ’ |
| 5 | Great strides had been made in under ten years . |
| 6 | Counts have also been made over about 18 square kilometres of chalk farmland north of Worthing , where a density of 22 pairs per 2,500 acres ( 10 sq . |
| 7 | The difference between a ‘ Wilton ’ and an ‘ Axminster ’ carpet , both of which are now made by about fifty different companies in Britain , is in the type of weave . |
| 8 | The company is supplying cases of Milac Milk Powder which , when mixed , will make up over 12 , pints of milk . |
| 9 | Manufacturers and managers , wholesale and retail , financial and commercial businesses , the building trade and the food and drink trade made up approximately two-thirds of the group . |
| 10 | American troops made up over three quarters of the Allied forces : for the first time American soldiers were fighting their Axis enemies on the ground . |
| 11 | However , households with children made up nearly 60 per cent of households with incomes in the lowest 10 per cent of the income distribution ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | By 1800 they made up nearly 50 per cent of the total . |
| 13 | They made up almost forty percent of the army |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The traditional occupation of Salagamas , who made up about seven per cent of the Sinhalese population , was cinnamon peeling . |
| 16 | By the beginning of the twentieth century the latter made up about 90 per cent of the population of the three western provinces , and between 60 and 85 per cent of Irkutsk , Transbaikal and Amur provinces , but in the enormous Yakutsk province and the far north-east it was still the non-Russian indigenous population which predominated , in a proportion of 13:1 . |
| 17 | On average , maintenance made up only 7 per cent of total income , with the mean amount being about £26 per family , or £16 per child per week . |
| 18 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 19 | One factor was that although the motor car made up only one third of all motor vehicles , it was yet seen as the crux of the motor problem ( Plowden , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | The pattern of relative abundance of Ichneumonidae is quite different : nearly a third of the 455 species trapped during 1972–73 were represented by single individuals , and the seven commonest species made up only 22 per cent of the catch . |
| 21 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 22 | At present non-French institutions make up nearly one third of the MATIF 's membership . |
| 23 | Fourthly , the CME 's independent traders ( locals ) who make up nearly three quarters of the membership feel threatened by this new technology . |
| 24 | While it is clear that an enormous range of interest groups exist in Japan , few would argue that small firms , non-unionized labour ( who make up over 70 per cent of the total ) , minority groups or the elderly have the same continuous access to the state as do large companies . |
| 25 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 26 | Ethnic Croats and Muslim Slavs , who together make up over 60 per cent of Bosnia 's population , support independence while minority Serbs have vowed to fight to retain links with Serbia , which borders Bosnia to the east . |
| 27 | As women make up over 60 per cent of these categories their position in the labour market is not well represented by the wage structure data . |
| 28 | Of all offenders found guilty , in all courts , both magistrate and crown courts , females make up approximately 11 per cent of the total ( magistrate courts deal with relatively minor crimes and civil actions , whereas the more serious indictable offences , which can be tried by jury , are dealt with by crown courts ) . |
| 29 | Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire . |
| 30 | Yellowfin tuna taken inside the ETP make up about 8 per cent of the world 's tuna catch . |