Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In over 20 years on the USPGA Tour his earnings only totalled some $3.5m , with his best year being 1980 with $380,000 . |
| 2 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 3 | Never again , because in sheer economic terms it is lunacy to spend upwards of £80 million to knock out a war machine that actually only provided some £20 billion of contracts for western industry . |
| 4 | Perhaps changing some people 's old and dated views so that soon when other young women undoubtedly become pregnant they will be protected from what I personally find I am going through . |
| 5 | Not only did some people continue to read their newspapers , but others actually gathered to watch ! |
| 6 | You know , just to attract some people , you know , approach the brewery , say look what about a few keg ? |
| 7 | 3DO Inc , the San Mateo , California start-up that revealed its licensable standard for a multimedia system of the future last month and has specified the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd RISC as the core of the Interactive Multiplayer ( CI No 2,082 ) , wants to capitalise on the excitement generated by making an initial public offering of about 2.5m shares at between $10 and $12 a time to raise $30m or so ; 3DO and its chief executive , Trip Hawkins , have already raised some $20m from from partners including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , its MCA Inc , Time Warner Inc , AT&T Co , Electronic Arts Inc and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. 3DO has signed Morgan Stanley & Co , but the prospectus is not out . |
| 8 | UniSoft says it was crucial for the six MIPS architecture partners — who have already spent some $1bn collectively on development — to have a migration route to a standard version of Unix . |
| 9 | I just plant some people own . |
| 10 | Of course , you will have already acquired some people skills through an ad hoc process of learning from experience . |
| 11 | Though it is expected to recover slightly thereafter it will still remain some 25% short of its peak until the end of the century . |
| 12 | In class terms the peasants were identified as part of the rural petty bourgeoisie : generally speaking , not members of the proletariat because they usually owned some means of production to support themselves . |
| 13 | I still know some people there anyway . |
| 14 | For this reason , helicopter radios which incorporate a second idle-up setting ( ‘ idle up 2 ’ ) will usually have some means of modifying the tail rotor response when this feature is selected . |
| 15 | Even if British Rail could increase its present share of the cross-Channel freight market to 25% ( a highly unlikely prospect ) this would still leave some 60m tonnes travelling by road in 1993 , and 90m tonnes in 2003 , on the basis of Eurotunnel 's most conservative forecasts . |
| 16 | Can I still put some fish in the pond or will they eat the wildlife ? |
| 17 | We still need , we still need some fruit and veg , but er , I do n't see that being a problem , you know . |
| 18 | erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , besides dispersing some species , howlers waste a large amount of fruit and seed material . |
| 20 | Bull also has some multi-media projects on the boil in conjunction with Philips , through the Esprit MultiWorks project , and demonstrated an unannounced HyperPath authoring environment for multi-media applications , currently running on Intel-based SCO Unix systems , but also available for Windows , and soon for the IBM RS/6000 . |
| 21 | Coal imports will also increase considerably probably reaching some 20% of demand by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | Grasslot Beach also gave some fish during calmer conditions . |
| 23 | They also include some people from ethnic minorities , homeless and rootless people , homeless families , and substance misusers . |
| 24 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 25 | The numbers of cetaceans caught in gill-nets through incidental catch need not be large to severely affect some species , nor are catches confined to developing countries . |
| 26 | The payment of interest on consumer credit now represents some £2,500 million a year , making this a vital area of consumer concern . |
| 27 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 28 | Misleading as it often is , the notion of the repressed homosexual does accurately describe some people . |
| 29 | Freelance 2.0 now embraces some multimedia functionality with an enhanced screen show routine . |
| 30 | It will be appreciated that the conductors of a transmission line inevitably exhibit some series inductance and some capacitance between each other besides some series resistance and some conductance between each other . |