Example sentences of "[prep] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 2 | What about some grapefruit ? |
| 3 | In answer to an enquiry about some goldfish last seen in a pool in the blazing sun : ‘ Oh , they 're all right now . |
| 4 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 5 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 6 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 7 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
| 8 | The companies also bring with them maintenance and support billings worth some £3m a year . |
| 9 | The companies also bring with them maintenance and support billings worth some £3m a year . |
| 10 | IBM figures the commercial Unix marketplace is worth some $9.4b right now , 25% of which is accounted for by Unix OLTP solutions , a further 2% by Unix OLTP with a TP monitor . |
| 11 | Sprint Corp yesterday completed its acquisition of Centel Corp in a share exchange worth some $4,700m . |
| 12 | The UK government secured a package of US concessions worth some £200,000,000 a year in return for relaxing this rule . |
| 13 | The savings [ see budget headings below ] consisted of cuts worth some $14,000 million in projected spending on middle class entitlement programmes ( including Medicare and federal and military retirement programmes ) , and in farm subsidies , and a cut of over $3,000 million from the defence budget . |
| 14 | In late 1990 Myanma reportedly agreed to purchase arms worth some US$1,000 million from China . |
| 15 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 16 | Large firms such as IBM Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have been fairly successful in selling to the government , but the overall Unix hardware market is a tiny $28.5m , whilst software is worth some $9.5m . |
| 17 | He had a personal budget of £200,000 ( worth some £10m today ) . |
| 18 | Such mortgage relief on interest payments to banks and building societies is worth some 15% of the gross monthly payments . |
| 19 | IBM is taking an initial 2.7% stake in the company , worth some $500,000 : continuation of the development agreement beyond January 29 is contingent on successful completion of the investment . |
| 20 | Currently world sales of photovoltaic equipment are worth some US$ 100 million . |
| 21 | The Philippines government had agreed to drop all pending or future suits filed against the Marcoses in the USA in return for Marcos property there worth some $8,000,000 . |
| 22 | The stockpile will be worth some £400 million by 1985 , if spending targets are met . |
| 23 | Late in 1774 he was presented to Weston Longville , Norfolk , a well-provided living worth some £400 a year . |
| 24 | The Unix element , worth some £130m , includes a 26% increase in its DRS6000 Sparc system business . |
| 25 | All support for military equipment purchases , worth some $30,000,000 , was withdrawn and economic aid was reduced by 76 per cent , from $12,500,000 to $3,000,000 ; food aid would not be affected . |
| 26 | Ariana is the brainchild of Roger Haddad , who previously founded Metrologie , probably one of the most successful value added hardware and software distribution networks ever created in Europe , with sales worth some $1bn in 1990 . |
| 27 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has stepped up its relationship with Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc , and is to integrate the firm 's Annex communications servers into its Intel Corp-based MX and MIPS Technologies Inc RISC-based RM300 and RM6000 Unix systems : the deal is worth some $5.25m over three years . |
| 28 | BNL last made headlines in 1989 , after revelations that an American branch of the bank , in Atlanta , Georgia , had extended unauthorised trade credits to Iraq worth some $3 billion . |
| 29 | From the high point in 1984 , when Marks ' fortune was worth some £47 million , the group has often plunged into losses , and Marks had to bring in a new chief executive . |
| 30 | Ferranti said the Coopers report confirmed what its own directors and accountants had already established — namely that ‘ phantom ’ assets and profits had been created in ISC 's accounts worth some £215m . |