Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total investment would be about £45 billion . |
| 2 | Ideally this card should be about 60mm × 13mm if the viewing distance is 1 metre , and scaled for other distances . |
| 3 | We estimate that for 1992 the cost of this work will be around £1.2 million , or two per cent of our costs . |
| 4 | CW reported that Brazilian group consumable costs will be approximately £200 p.a . |
| 5 | The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under £20 a week . |
| 6 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 7 | Even if only half these elderly people find that the withdrawal of tax relief makes private medical insurance too expensive for them and , consequently , revert once more to relying solely on the NHS for treatment , the cost to the nation of providing this care would be approximately £136 million . |
| 8 | Unless we do live in an age of miracles , it seems unavoidable that the current account deficit this year will be about £20bn , an unenviable record . |
| 9 | Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that that means that the average family in this country would be approximately £2,000 better off if it lived in Italy ? |
| 10 | Crucially he arranged these zones every 15° longitude apart : with 360° around the globe , and 24 hours to deal with , simple arithmetic indicated that each zone should be roughly 15° wide . |
| 11 | The DSS estimate that the average assessment will be about £40 per week ( compared with £25 now ) and that in about 25 per cent of cases the bill will be payable in full . |
| 12 | A rough estimate of his total annual income would be about £30 , the sort of sum which curates received and complained of . |
| 13 | But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower . |
| 14 | Thus the processes that affect ordinary people may be only microprocesses of everyday life . |
| 15 | Trim one edge neatly with a knife so that it is straight — the straight edge should be about 30cm ( 12inches ) long . |
| 16 | The annual cost will be about £3m a year which compares with the £500,000 currently spent on the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 17 | In 1993 , the group 's charitable donations will be around £2 million in the UK along . |
| 18 | These bolts should be about 7.5cm ( 3in ) long so that you can fit several layers of blotting paper , newspaper and flowers into the press . |
| 19 | Capital expenditure on trunk road schemes in Wiltshire in the next three years will be approximately £50 million . |
| 20 | These are soft lacquer discs which record your ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ side from your studio master tape ( these discs can be either 7″ or 12″ , depending on your chosen format ) . |
| 21 | These holes should be about 5cm ( 2inches ) square in area and 2·5cm ( linch ) deep . |
| 22 | Large bulbs should be only half-buried ; with smaller ones , the tips should be just below the compost surface . |
| 23 | The retail value would be around £1000 . |
| 24 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 25 | The Department of the Environment , however , has previously announced that the cost of preparing the industry for market sell-off by wiping off debt and meeting environmental standards will be around £6.6 billion . |
| 26 | The Department of the Environment , however , has previously announced that the cost of preparing the industry for market sell-off by wiping off debt and meeting environmental standards will be around £6.6 billion . |
| 27 | Those three elements now all come out of the same fund , with discretion in the hands of the FHSA to use the fund for any one of those three purposes , but with a clear steer that the amount for the current year should be roughly £20 million , which my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 28 | The alternative to institution-led standards might be either deprofessionalisation or re-registration tests of competence . |
| 29 | If fences are made of plain wire , the lowermost strand should be about 14in ( 35cm ) from the ground . |
| 30 | It emerged that Leannda would require four operations , two on each eye , and the total bill would be about £60,000 . |