Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Got a few little er trinkets that er Joyce back from Canada .
2 But the power industry in West Germany cut its sulphur emissions 75 per cent between 1983 and 1988 .
3 he says he can never remember the names , it 's the times that er
4 It 's a sign of the times that pop-as-reinvention-of-the-self is something that resonates for fewer and fewer people in the world that is the music press readership .
5 Starting in the summer of 1993 , it is estimated that it will cost the local authorities some FFr130 million ( £13,402,061 ; $24,123,709 ) .
6 For example , among those aged 65 and over in non-manual socio-economic groups 12 per cent of men compared with 17 per cent of women report acute sickness and among manual groups the proportions are 16 per cent and 21 per cent respectively .
7 The ‘ victims ’ of acid rain had also begun to form an alliance — the ‘ 30 per cent Club ’ , a group committed to reducing 1980 sulphur emissions 30 per cent by 1993 .
8 Though UNI owes creditors some NKr3.6 billion and made a net loss of NKr3.4 billion last year , its 40% share of the Norwegian insurance market still makes it a tempting target .
9 With an airframe life of 10,000 hours this 3,900-hour aeroplane has been relatively little used .
10 We suspect that in many work settings 70 per cent of time spent on task or on associated activities would be a remarkable achievement .
11 @TAB1 = Element selected % @TAB1 = Martian 100 @TAB1 = human expedition30 @TAB1 = Mars 67 @TAB1 = Terran 100 @TAB1 = human colony 87 @TAB1 = Luna 100 @TAB1 = interplanetary trip 97 @TAB1 = free-fall orbits 97 @TAB1 = Terra to Mars 87 @TAB1 = Terran days 67 @TAB1 = Mars 24 @TAB1 = planets 47 @TAB1 = return orbit 100 @TAB1 = space station 87 @TAB1 = Envoy 50 @TAB1 = Mars 10 @TAB1 = reaction tanks 90 The mean average across all of these percentages is 72.94% .
12 In a 1963 survey , Butler and Stokes found that among those with a ‘ middle class ’ self-image and who also considered themselves partisans of the major parties 79 per cent were Tory and 21 per cent Labour supporters .
13 mean , presumably it 's quite easy for the first two or three weeks , it 's after , after a couple of months that er life gets more difficult .
14 The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty .
15 some of the young people have got it , my , I mean my son is only twenty nine and he 's got it you know in the shoulders this er
16 In 1789 – 90 the conviction rate in London was 79 per cent and in the provinces 85 per cent .
17 On existing membership figures that would give constituency parties 26 per cent of the vote , and the unions 74 per cent .
18 What I want to ask is , firstly , who are you funded by , and these teams , I note erm paragraphs three erm these nurses and so on , are they existing staff , or is this a new team , erm management team which has been set up at yet more expense to the health authority ?
19 Reworking of her indices by Deane and Cole suggests that between the quinquennium 1750 – 4 to 1785 – 9 money wage rises in the South varied between less than 4 per cent for London labourers and 19.4 per cent for those of Kent , whereas in Lancashire labourers gained 64 per cent and craftsmen 40.5 per cent over the period .
20 In the first two months 90 per cent of short distance trains turned up after five minutes and 96 per cent of long distance trains turned up after ten minutes .
21 The house is spacious and comfortable , with four bedrooms all en suite , a lounge , dining room , and sun lounge/bar .
22 There are five bedrooms all en suite with colour TVs , and an attractive lounge .
23 This modern 4 crown privately owned hotel has 47 spacious bedrooms all en suite , colour TVs , direct dial telephones , radio alarm clock and hospitality tray .
24 The corresponding percentage of party ‘ supporters ’ amongst Guardian readers was 66 per cent , amongst Telegraph etc. , readers 62 per cent , and amongst Express/Mail readers 56 per cent .
25 How this movement is affected by the histone modifications and additional proteins present in vivo will doubtless provide fertile ground for future investigations .
26 New start-ups provided 14 per cent , and new branches 18 per cent .
27 These surveys constituted an update of a developing situation previously summarized in paragraphs 537 et seq .
28 Speakers looked at listeners 50 per cent of the time while speaking fluently compared with only 20 per cent of the time during hesitant speech .
29 Glasgow is one of the hardest-hit areas and in some Lanarkshire schools 25 per cent of pupils have been affected .
30 Glasgow is one of the hardest-hit areas and in some Lanarkshire schools 25 per cent of pupils have been affected .
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