Example sentences of "is [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example Shaw ( 1980 ) reports that the minimum efficient scale of an ammonium nitrate plant is about 300,000–450,000 tonnes per annum , which approximates to a quarter of total UK consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers . |
| 2 | Continuous play is about one hour per side . |
| 3 | And th and and what I did is , all Roger 's got so far is about one sheet of A four typed up or something like |
| 4 | In Rufforth Village , follow Bradley Lane ( signposted to Askham Richard ) , Bradley Grange is about one mile on your right . |
| 5 | The distance is about one mile . |
| 6 | The distance is about one mile . |
| 7 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 8 | The mean delay between thesis completion and first publication is about one year . |
| 9 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 10 | When prey is about one metre away , the fish 's aim is almost perfect . |
| 11 | Shropshire is about one quarter of the land mass of the west midlands and it is the most rapidly growing county in that area . |
| 12 | Sorry , twenty four percent , twenty four percent body weight erm about a quarter in other words when , when a young woman 's body is about one quarter fat , she can start menstruating for obvious reasons . |
| 13 | ‘ It is about one nation . ’ |
| 14 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 16 | My advice is to remember that the short story is about one thing and one thing only , which often reveals itself in a single situation . |
| 17 | It is difficult to establish an exact incubation period for genital louse infection but various authorities agree that the average time between acquiring and noticing the lice is about one month . |
| 18 | ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) . |
| 19 | The thickness of the Stinkdolomit in areas where it has been affected by late leaching is about 40–60 m and of this , about 10–20 m might be expected to constitute potential net pay . |
| 20 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 21 | Available information suggests that the gliadin content of the standard gluten free diet is about 1 mg per day . |
| 22 | The sample density is about 1 sample per km² ; , using first or second order streams . |
| 23 | Use the following imperial Units : inch , foot , yard , mile ; ounce , pound ; pint , gallon ; and know their approximate metric equivalents , i.e. that 3 feet is about equal to 1 metre , 5 miles is about 8 kilometres , 2 lb is about 1 kilogram , 1 gallon is about 4½ litres . |
| 24 | The adult worm is about 1 millimetre long and consists of only about 1000 body cells and thousands of germ cells . |
| 25 | Thus , poly-L-ornithine is about 5–10 times more efficient for both transient and stable transfections of this cell type than other standard methods of gene transfer . |
| 26 | The slope of the hip bone is about 20–30 degrees . |
| 27 | A bird in the hand is worth two votes for Bush |
| 28 | Number nine spell the word Mercutio , Mercutio Number ten spell the word Paris Number eleven is worth two marks I want you to spell Friar and Lawrence . |
| 29 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 30 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |