Example sentences of "has about [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% .
2 According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% .
3 Normally , the council has about 90pc of the 58,000 forms back by this time .
4 In the ‘ decameric sandwich ’ , CsA has about 80% of its surface hidden , leaving a solvent-accessible surface of 270 2 ; the CsA binding site ( and therefore the PPIase active site ) is completely inaccessible .
5 Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months .
6 The country has about 6m public employees of all kinds .
7 The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council takes up its role from 1 April and has about £343 million to distribute .
8 Russell Walls , finance director of the textile group Coats Viyella , , which has about £70 million ACT surplus to requirements , said both reforms were good news for companies with surplus ACT and foreign income .
9 The Hambros Currency Fund , which has about £26m under management , has a minimum investment of £1,000 with a portfolio consisting of three managed funds and two single currency funds .
10 The city has about 1.1m people on public assistance .
11 It reckons MCI now has about 18% of the US long-distance business , up from about 14% three years ago .
12 Sunnyvale , California-based modems specialist Telebit Corp has firmed up its January agreement to acquire Octocom Systems Inc for 5m new shares : Telebit currently has about 7.5m shares outstanding so Octocom holders would have 40% of the enlarged firm on completion in May .
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