Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 2 | From what I could see we looked absolutely first class for about 70% of the game . |
| 3 | Uzzell is targeting a 25% growth in turnover for wholesale finance , from approximately £45m last year to about $56m in 1993 . |
| 4 | WITH competition beginning to bite in industrial gas sales , British Gas suffered a drop of about £700 million in profits last year to about £1 billion on a historic-cost basis . |
| 5 | Pentland , the sporting-goods group , said Berghaus , which had sales last year of about £20 million , would continue to operate from its two main sites in Washington , near Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 6 | This peeping tom appeal led to the sale last year of about £25 million worth of amateur porn videos . |
| 7 | Labour leader Coun Chris Bithell said : ‘ We underspent last year by about 38pc . |