Example sentences of "[coord] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 2 | This week they went on sale again , at the ludicrous price of 92p for a 608-gramme punnet , or about 70p a pound . |
| 3 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 4 | They supported a total population estimated at about 100 million , which remained more or less static from 1600 to 1850 — or about 5 people per square mile of cultivable land . |
| 5 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 6 | On the basis of a building purchase price of £200,000 , the total cost of the project would be £1 million , or about £16,000 per flat . |
| 7 | However , if increases in the other greenhouse gases are taken into account , the equivalent of that doubling will take place in or about 2030 . |
| 8 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 9 | From then until harvest the size of the flattened areas steadily increases until it totals well over 1ha ( 2.5 acres ) , or about 3% of the wheat area . |
| 10 | The levy is nine per cent of the personal taxation level , meaning that most tax-payers contribute between two and four per cent of their incomes to the church ( or about £1,000 a year for someone on a £30,000 salary ) . |
| 11 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 12 | Here , R. H. Tawney took a traditional line , asserting that Tutorial Classes and , at the very least , One-Year courses constituted the WEA 's real work , that those who had left school at or about fifteen were its most important target and that as a movement it should be largely under the control of its voluntary student members . |
| 13 | According to a study made in 1989 by Professor Klaus Tiedemann of Freiburg University , fraud accounts for an estimated 10% of the EC budget , or about £6 billion a year . |
| 14 | Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts . |
| 15 | A new sole will cost from £7–£15 , depending on the material used , or about £4 for only a heel replacement . |
| 16 | Dr Carrington 's bill for this particular course of treatment had already reached $48,000 , or about £28,000 . |
| 17 | Since federal expenditure on administration was only 48 billion dinars , expenditure on this item by all other agencies appears to have been 355 billion dinars , or about 3.8 per cent of adjusted social product in that year . |
| 18 | In that year the electricity bill for one of the winter quarters was just over £25 but before today 's Society Stewards become too wistful they should also reflect on the fact that the average Sunday offering then through the envelope system was below £17 , or about 7p for each subscriber . |
| 19 | Four National Parks are within 100 km , or about 2 hours driving time . |
| 20 | * This amount will be determined by the level of the FT-SE 100 Index prevailing at or about 11.00 am on the maturity date of the Bond . |
| 21 | The calculation of the maturity value of your Bond will be based on the average levels of the FT-SE 100 Index at or about 11.00 am and at or about 3.00 pm London Time on the commencement date of your Bond and on the level of the FT-SE 100 Index prevailing at or about 11.00 am London Time on the maturity date of your Bond . |
| 22 | The calculation of the maturity value of your Bond will be based on the average levels of the FT-SE 100 Index at or about 11.00 am and at or about 3.00 pm London Time on the commencement date of your Bond and on the level of the FT-SE 100 Index prevailing at or about 11.00 am London Time on the maturity date of your Bond . |
| 23 | The calculation of the maturity value of your Bond will be based on the average levels of the FT-SE 100 Index at or about 11.00 am and at or about 3.00 pm London Time on the commencement date of your Bond and on the level of the FT-SE 100 Index prevailing at or about 11.00 am London Time on the maturity date of your Bond . |
| 24 | It is estimated that as a general rule these stores will accommodate about 3,500,000 sq ft of timber , or about 300,000 cub ft . |
| 25 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 26 | Fortunately the Ecuadorian government is sympathetic and in 1982–83 will have paid at least 60 per cent of the station 's budget , or about $750000 . |
| 27 | The relay satellites , each of which can relay 300 million bits of information , or about five million words , per second , were needed to handle the massive flow of data collected and immediately beamed down by Spacelab 's instruments . |
| 28 | There must be something wrong with the Trebor technique because countless — or about a dozen — readers have sent in stories of their own triumphs with peppermints , sugar lumps , sticky tape and photographic film . |
| 29 | 18 ‘ units ’ is in ¾ bottle of spirits OR about 2 bottles of wine OR 9 pints of beer . |
| 30 | The main , second and third wave , army , consisting of 100 battalions , or about 50,000 men , would be held in reserve until the last moment between the Lower Rhine and the River Meuse , apparently intended for Westphalia . |