Example sentences of "about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with a 50MB hard disk , 2MB of memory , Super VGA colour monitor , mouse , DOS and windows the new machine will become Elonex 's entry-level up-gradeable computer , with a price tag of about £925 . |
| 2 | With so much money being paid out throughout the running world a lot of the top names have gone elsewhere , such as Rotterdam , Los Angeles New York or Boston , but victory in London is still a lucrative prospect with about £235,000 on offer . |
| 3 | Our bill , with service , Sancerre and a good house claret from a very decent list , came to about £74 for two . |
| 4 | Make rows 23cm/9in apart with a stick or hoe and plant them about 10cm/4in apart with the tips just out of the soil . |
| 5 | It costs about £37,000 |
| 6 | GEAC proposal about £37,000 initially . |
| 7 | The annual Tea Meeting on 12 January 1886 involved buying tea at 2/6 per pound ( about 13p ) , sugar at 2d per pound ( about 1p ) and 15 pounds of sweets at 5d per pound ( a total cost of around 32p ) . |
| 8 | If we did not require that dividend , which is spent on hospitals , schools and much else , we would be able to cut only about 1p off the 24p cost of a first-class stamp . |
| 9 | According to Barber White , a firm of property researchers , there are about 11m square feet of vacant property in the City . |
| 10 | The average tar yield of British cigarettes ( as measured by a standard machine method by the Government Chemist ) has declined from about 30mg per cigarette in the period 1955–61 to 13.6mg today . |
| 11 | Size : About 5″ . |
| 12 | Cows in recorded British herds average about 5,000kg of milk at 3.64 per cent butterfat but many herds average more than 6,000kg at more than 4 per cent . |
| 13 | Liber 's turnover in 1992 from its activities in educational , legal , professional and trade publishing , distribution , and school and office supply was SK1.3bn ( about £112m ) . |
| 14 | Toads hibernate during the winter , and become active again when the temperature rises to about 6°C , migrating to their breeding ponds with the first mild weather of the spring . |
| 15 | The server will boot and run with 8Mb and uses about 85Mb for system files and swap space . |
| 16 | When they were about 2 weeks old and measured about ⅓″ ( total length ) I decided to conduct an experiment to see how they would react to a shell ; I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment . |
| 17 | It has been calculated that Allied 's breakup value is about 1,000p a share . |
| 18 | about £5.95 for 680g , from independent retailers , delicatessens and food halls . |
| 19 | The tank reading is well over 50ppm and the tapwater is about 45ppm . |
| 20 | You need a trench the width of a spade and about 1½in deep . |
| 21 | GERMANY about £9.20 ( 44% tax ) |
| 22 | By the eleventh century they were generally no bigger than the unimproved Iron Age cattle , averaging about 107cm in height , and they were short-horned . |
| 23 | The deceased 's estate includes the property , 150B , High Street , and investments valued in March 1986 at about £105,000 . |
| 24 | Mr. Burgess did not know that in fact the deceased 's investments were worth about £105,000 . |
| 25 | The first model , known as the DD-1 , has been highly successful in Japan with nearly 200,000 units being sold at Y58,000 ( about £225 ) within the first year following its launch . |
| 26 | Price from about £225 |
| 27 | Federal agents have seized dozens of bank accounts and about $30m in Florida office buildings , homes and other properties owned by Carlos Cardoen . |
| 28 | Star Trek V was the first film of the series to make a loss , estimated at about $30m . |
| 29 | But now it is understood that annual sales have slipped to only about $30m — and accumulated losses at the subsidiary are put at as much as $10m . |
| 30 | The narrowing on its own was unlikely however to reduce speeds significantly , so pinch points were placed at intervals of about 50m along the road . |