Example sentences of "[vb pp] at about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This agrees with the observation that human marathons are won at about half the speed of 100 m sprints . |
| 2 | ‘ The demand for new houses is forecast at about 200,000 a year to the end of the century , ’ says the report . |
| 3 | Between 1870 and 1930 average completed family size decreased from five or six children to three and has now stabilized at about two . |
| 4 | With the circuit values chosen , the system is optimized at about 5V where good regulation up to the design current of 5A is obtained . |
| 5 | These wines , priced at about £35 a case , would make superior house selections . |
| 6 | The first production versions of Audi 's Cabriolet were on show , although it does n't go on sale until April/May in Germany and the UK launch has been delayed until summer 1992 , when it 's expected to be priced at about £25,000 . |
| 7 | The wireless local network product that NCR Corp exhibited at the Unix Fair in Yokohama last year is now the subject of an agreement between NCR and NEC Corp , which will sell the local network under its own name , as will NCR Japan ; WaveLAN operates in the 2.4GHz frequency band , and a new related product , NCR WavePoint , designed to connect wireless local networks to cabled ones , will also be available from June , priced at about $4,000 . |
| 8 | Priced at about £20,000 and aimed mainly at the American market , the expedition promises not only the now commonplace deluxe basecamp and satellite telephone links , but a 24-hours service , complete with VDE , providing constant information about share price movements on Wall Street . |
| 9 | That may seem anything but recent , but remember that a million years is a relatively insignificant span of time compared with the age of the Earth , at present reckoned at about 4,600 million years . |
| 10 | We know that this can be done at about 12 months of age and in future it is quite possible that farmers will use these measurements in selecting their bulling heifers . ’ |
| 11 | A small Roman settlement is believed to have existed on a spur of land lying between Stamford Brook and Bollo Brook , at which site was discovered a Roman bronze finger ring , also an almost complete , decorated , Samian bowl , dated at about 100 A.D. |
| 12 | Into this zone were later injected the West of England granites , dated at about 280 Ma ( Early Permian ) . |
| 13 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |
| 14 | The 21-year-old Malmo player , rated at about £700,000 , has already rejected moves to Liverpool and Leeds . |
| 15 | ‘ We needed a miracle , and we got one , ’ said Mr Glennie , whose yacht , valued at about £87,000 and uninsured , represented everything he owned . |
| 16 | At current levels of demand , the additional work is valued at about £4m a year . |
| 17 | The company , whose stock market value has doubled over the past year , is currently valued at about £9700m . |
| 18 | The contract , which is valued at about $40m , calls for both Tecnimont and Entecsa to provide engineering services , materials and technical assistance for the project , which will use Himont Spheripol technology . |
| 19 | The purse and its contents is valued at about £70 . |
| 20 | Some 1,000 roof tiles , valued at about £300 , were stolen . |
| 21 | About 120 bales of barley straw , valued at about £1,400 , were destroyed in the blaze at a Dutch barn in Long Road , Lawford , near Manningtree . |
| 22 | The fire , which caused damage valued at about £2,500 , had been started deliberately but the motive was still not clear . |
| 23 | Minneapolis-based Digi International Inc has definitive agreement to acquire fellow data communications systems specialist Star Gate Technologies Inc in a share exchange transaction valued at about $10m : Solon , Ohio-based Star Gate did $885,000 net on turnover of $10.7m for the 10 months to January 31 . |
| 24 | Tissington also gave a number of other items to Roe including the tools of the mine , valued at about £40 , " at the time of the sale and not mentioned in the bargain … " |
| 25 | It will also create a new ITV company , valued at about £90m , lying third in the league table behind Central in the Midlands and Carlton in London . |
| 26 | MB-Caradon 's chairman , Antony Hichens , and chief executive , Peter Jansen , denied yesterday that there is an immediate buyer in sight for the stake , which is currently valued at about £515 million on the Paris Bourse , but they have called an egm for 4 March to ask shareholders to approve a sale whenever an attractive opportunity arises . |
| 27 | Neighbours were awakened at about 11.45pm by screams for help . |
| 28 | Some of the barley is used for malting to make beer but about two-thirds is fed to beef cattle which are fattened quickly and slaughtered at about 1½ years old . |
| 29 | Our line would follow the Great Triangular Icefield , a feature angled at about 50 degrees , dotted with ice cliffs here and there , to its apex 1500 feet higher . |
| 30 | It is difficult to give precise guidelines but it is now our practice to recommend that oral iron be given until the haemoglobion concentrations and red cell counts are normal , and that these are remeasured at about three monthly intervals for a year and further iron given as necessary . |