Example sentences of "about [noun] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £1.04 billion agreed offer for the French group , Darty , will in one leap make Kingfisher not just Britain 's , but Europe 's , No 1 seller of electrical goods and add about £1 billion to sales estimated at £3.5 billion last year . |
| 2 | Control Data Corp expects to record charges of about $400m against its second quarter , about $130m attributable to Control Data Systems — $115m in restructuring charges and $15m in inventory write-downs as part of the transition from the proprietary Cyber mainframes to integration of open systems and applications . |
| 3 | One cu m will cover an area of about 20sq m to a depth of 50mm . |
| 4 | He is also attempting to push through a plan to increase the EC Budget by 30 per cent — costing British taxpayers an additional £1 billion a year — with the aim of raising the Budget from its present level of about £4 billion to £30 billion by 1997 . |
| 5 | Eastman Kodak Co 's Japanese unit has had to pay about $20,000 each to those eight new college graduates for reneging on its promise to employ them : the money is to compensate for the psychological damage the last-minute cancellation may have caused them , and provide some of the salary they expected . |
| 6 | Total loans for house buying has more than quadrupled from about £9.1 billion to £43 billion , with the number of mortgages increasing by 62 p.c. from 6.5m to about 10m . |
| 7 | It is an increase from about £6 billion to about £9 billion . |
| 8 | He has grown from about 1″ long to 6″ and has developed a beautiful long tail . |
| 9 | RESTORING fire-damaged Windsor Castle will cost about £30 million to £40 million , the National Heritage Secretary , Peter Brooke , disclosed yesterday . |
| 10 | Some time later they might add about $1 billion to Zeneca 's annual sales . |
| 11 | I remind the House that since 1979 the Government have approved over £7.5 billion of new investment and have provided for grant aid of about £17 billion to the industry . |
| 12 | Third World genes contributed about $20 million to the value of the American maize crop in the mid-1980s and some corporate breeders estimate this will rise to about $6,000 million in the coming decades . |
| 13 | Parents , pressure groups , national teachers ' organisations , and academics regularly express in print the notion that closing a primary school and sending children down the road to a school in another settlement may bring about changes detrimental to the way of life of any community whose school is closed . |
| 14 | When fish have lived in water then bring about changes due to the products of their metabolism . |