Example sentences of "[noun] by about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean what I 'd like to do to be , to be honest , I do n't know if we will do is er be at er , at er Borg by about half four , five o'clock |
| 2 | Sited behind the loose door stops , so that there was no filler to mar the appearance , they penetrated the masonry by about 25mm — any longer is unnecessary , and a waste of expensive steel fixings . |
| 3 | The Department of Trade and Industry has decided not to refer the offer which topped Lord Hanson 's bid by about £150m . |
| 4 | In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) . |
| 5 | The country must build a working repository by about 1998 . |
| 6 | Administration of platelet activating factor ( 50 µg/kg ip ) caused significant reduction in basal protein secretion by about 30% and this was completely reversed when TCV-309 ( 50 µg/kg ) was administered before the platelet activating factor injection ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 7 | By 1973 the profit rate in business and manufacturing had fallen from its previous peak in each major bloc by about one-third . |
| 8 | This was to be achieved by increasing the cost of buying and running cars by about 50 per cent . |
| 9 | But in the south-western port of Bayonne , a march by about 1,000 people degenerated into violence as demonstrators smashed barriers , lit a fire and hurled flares at the police , who responded with tear gas , water cannon and truncheons . |
| 10 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 11 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 12 | There was a rival demonstration by about 2,000 Communists and , according to various estimates , 500 Communists managed to get tickets into the hall . |
| 13 | A hostile demonstration by about 20,000 people near the nunciature earlier on Jan. 3 apparently influenced his decision . |
| 14 | On July 26 a demonstration by about 10,000 people led by students from the University of Papua New Guinea was held in Port Moresby . |
| 15 | The largest party , the Christian Democrats ( DC ) , and the third-largest , the Socialist Party ( PSI ) , both increased their share of the vote by about 2 percentage points . |
| 16 | The CDU increased its share of the vote by about 7 percentage points . |
| 17 | Cos Amber 's older than Rebecca by about erm six months . |
| 18 | IBM Japan Ltd reported net profit for 1992 down 44.8% to the equivalent of $268m ; turnover slipped 1.6% to $10,750m ; the company says service business including systems integration showed double-digit growth from the previous year but that hardware sales turned in a double-digit drop ; ‘ We are still in the midst of changing course to become a service company , ’ the company said — ‘ Along with the severe state of the economy , that resulted in lower sales and profits ; ’ systems integration , accounting for just 8% of sales , grew by 40% and IBM Japan plans to increase staff there by half this year ; hardware sales accounted for 53% of the total , but the ratio could reverse this year ; the company plans to cut operating costs per employee by about 10% , further reducing headquarters staff by a quarter , reducing the number of top executives by a quarter and slashing executive bonuses in half . |
| 19 | Its closure will cut Mexico 's capacity by about 100,000 barrels per day , and cost the country an estimated $500 million . |
| 20 | Usually we 've finished with lunch by about a quarter past one . |
| 21 | Right , well we want to make sure that you can get out to lunch sort of by , that 's running a bit fast that clock , we 'd like to get you out to lunch by about half past twelve otherwise you 'll end up being late do n't you with all the other people |
| 22 | Sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) reduced the area of lesions induced by modified aspirin by about 43% and significantly improved the gastric blood flow . |
| 23 | ‘ The estimate is by the end of the year they should have reduced their product range by about 20% . ’ |
| 24 | The value of exports rose by 29 per cent to Rs202,800 million , helped by the depreciation by about 12 per cent of the rupee and liberalization measures . |
| 25 | It said the extra charge , to be taken as exceptional , would lower its full-year profit due in May by about £25m . |
| 26 | would increase overall by about five hectares or so . |
| 27 | This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book . |
| 28 | We were told that typically it could increase the level of instalments by about seven per cent — say , 35p on top of a £5 instalment . |
| 29 | ON 28 November 1990 , Antonio Gilvan da Cruz , a member of the Truka community , was seized at his home by about eight armed men in civilian clothes ( see AMNESTY June/July , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ , pp18–19 ) . |
| 30 | This move towards efficiency and specialization affected most departments of state ; thus five of the ten generals have distinct functions by about 350 : general in charge of overseas hoplite expeditions , general appointed for the defence of Attica , general for the Piraeus and so on . |