Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 2 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 3 | Maintenance labour cost vary somewhat around NZ , just as they do here , but against the UK 's average hourly £15 to £25 or so for single-engine aircraft , NZ engineers seem to charge the equivalent of £12 to £15 on average . |
| 4 | Those who have laboured long at programmed learning sequences , even if less wholeheartedly multi-media in scope , will agree that such units take time to prepare . |
| 5 | Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ? |
| 6 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 7 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 8 | The Maori children comprised 43% of those without full data but only 23% of those with full data . |
| 9 | In the fasting state , G17 represented only 23% of the total immunoreactive gastrin in molar terms in the presence of H pylori and this fell to less than 10% after eradication of the infection . |
| 10 | A similar finding has been reported using simultaneous gamma scintigraphy , oesophageal pH monitoring , and manometry in which only 23% of reflux events were detected by both methods . |
| 11 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
| 12 | Perhaps 80% of subject search sessions are short and successful , the searcher being satisfied by one or two apparently relevant items in the first dozen or so . |
| 13 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 14 | THE clobbering of their portfolios by Tokyo 's tumbling stockmarket ( down 23% on the Nikkei index since January ) has made 1990 a terrible year for those Japanese companies that dabble in stocks as a way of boosting their business profits . |
| 15 | CompuAdd Computer Corp , Austin , Texas cut prices across its product line by as much as 23% : the EISA-based CompuAdd 466EDX2 tower unit now costs $3,800 , and the CompuAdd 433DX configured in a desktop power chassis is now $2,600 ; the CompuAdd 466DX2 configured in a desktop power chassis is down 23% at $3,000 . |
| 16 | Macland Inc saw fourth quarter net profits up 103.2% at $74,753 , on turnover down 36.7% at $2.9m ; net profit for the year to December 31 stood at $42,176 against losses of $55,738 last time , on turnover down 23% to $14.2m . |
| 17 | Cleveland has some 20,000 empty school places , and spends some £80 per pupil on its central administration , while only £40 per pupil is spent across the border in North Yorkshire . |
| 18 | When we started , only 17pc of pubs were selling real ale , now that figure is 64pc . |
| 19 | By contrast , it spent only £14,500 on publicity among older and disabled people in this country , about 0.2p per vote . |
| 20 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 21 | A slump in taxable profits left food distributor Booker down 19p at 420p . |
| 22 | Cable & Wireless closed down 19p at 850p , BT shares fell 6p to 421p , Vodafone dropped 19p to 491p , and Securicor , which owns 40% of Cellnet , slid 29p to 710p . |
| 23 | Homology between the two marsupial genes reaches 84% with conservative substitutions , but falls below 50% outside the HMG-box region . |
| 24 | Certainly the galleries where the slate is blasted , which go down 1,500ft in giant steps , have a dramatic quality of their own . |
| 25 | The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs . |
| 26 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 27 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 28 | US aid commitments to Zimbabwe began at $24m at Independence in 1980 , rose to $84m in 1982 , fell to $59m in 1984 and were set to fall well below $20m in early 1986 prior to a decision in September 1986 to cancel all future aid programmes … |
| 29 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 30 | In a year of minimum rainfall only 17% of the total falls as rain in the 5 month period June to October . |