Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most economical wash uses only 16 ltr of water and 0.45 kWh of energy . |
| 2 | A full programme uses on 17 ltr of water and a 1.2 kWh of energy . |
| 3 | Its venerability is enhanced by the irreverent graffiti of names carved in the wood . |
| 4 | The Peruvian headquarters of IBM Corp were severely damaged and at least 17 people were injured after urban guerrillas of the Maoist Shining Path terrorist organisation detonated a powerful car bomb in front of the computer company 's offices in southeast Lima . |
| 5 | The largest grouse of the region , and only mistakable for an unexpectedly airborne turkey . |
| 6 | In 1971 83% of men aged 60–64 were economically active . |
| 7 | He could also understand why they objected to London being the European headquarters of United Motors . |
| 8 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |
| 9 | On July 11 at an extraordinary meeting of the Consultative Group for Economic Co-operation in the Caribbean , held at the European headquarters of the World Bank in Paris , Haiti was granted a " soft " development loan of US$340,000,000 to encourage the development of a free marker economy . |
| 10 | No stronger message could be delivered to Labour headquarters of the need to do so than a Conservative victory on Thursday . |
| 11 | The administrative headquarters of the University are located to the north of Coleraine , a pleasant market town on the River Bann . |
| 12 | The administrative headquarters of the University are located to the north of Coleraine , a pleasant market town on the River Bann . |
| 13 | Since production had been moved out to Ponte San Giovanni the buildings had been gutted and transformed into the administrative headquarters of SIMP . |
| 14 | At the time of the fire , government health officials poured the milk from cows grazing across 500 sq.km of Cumbrian land into the sea . |
| 15 | A cDNA fragment encompassing ca. 500 nts of the 3' portion of DRA was used to prepare the in vitro transcribed RNA probe . |
| 16 | Their officers still demoralised by the Noriega purges which followed the abortive coup in October , the PDF are massively outgunned by the US forces , although the armed militia of the ‘ Dignity Battalions ’ will help redress the balance . |
| 17 | Forces loyal to Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , sought unsuccessfully to eliminate Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) , the armed militia of the Phalangist Lebanese Front . |
| 18 | Fighting broke out in East Beirut on March 1 , and again on March 9 after a week-long truce , between the rival Christian forces of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , and of Samir Geagea , leader of the Lebanese Forces ( LF ) , the armed militia of the Phalangist Lebanese Front . |
| 19 | are involved in energy and water industries , and we have a regional headquarters of the electricity board . |
| 20 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
| 21 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 22 | By 1986 100% of IBM 's employees had developed keyboard skills . |
| 23 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 24 | You start the game with three Sopwith Camels ( the best Allied aircraft of WWI ) , each of which can absorb four hits before crashing to the ground . |
| 25 | The formalised and structured use of a variety of books to support learning in schools came into play only when the school population had been weeded down to less that 10% of the state school population . ’ |
| 26 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 27 | The disproportionate amount in question has been nearer 10% of the annual budget , in comparison to the 5% that Brown would normally expect to spend in marketing a new hotel . |
| 28 | BAe had sold the workforce , in effect , and the finest aircraft of its type in the world to a US competitor , he protested . |
| 29 | ( 5 ) Haskey found , for 1987–9 , that 53% of lone mothers with at least one child under the age of 16 were economically inactive . |
| 30 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |