Example sentences of "[n mass] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , I made inquiries with the old-folk of the village to see if they remembered any house or cottage ever standing on that particular field . |
| 2 | For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years . |
| 3 | Cohorts were comprised of all new roots present along a 1.8-cm-wide transect on the minirhizotron surface that were produced between successive sample dates in the upper 30cm of the soil . |
| 4 | The link-up will also boost income for the station which has 16pc of the ITV audience but only collects 12pc of the revenue . |
| 5 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 6 | It is accurate to within 1°C of the actual temperature in the package ( information supplied by manufacturer ) . |
| 7 | Jardines has threatened that , unless the regulators leave it alone , it may delist the shares of companies it controls from the local stock exchange — 14% of the market 's capitalisation . |
| 8 | Marks and Spencer was second with 14% of the vote , Glaxo third with 11% and Shell a distant sixth with just 4.1% . |
| 9 | The magnitude of this social problem is evident in Robert Malcolmson 's observation that servants , both domestic and in husbandry , constituted 13% to 14% of the population at any time in this period . |
| 10 | The home counties of Bedfordshire , Berkshire and Buckinghamshire have the lowest proportions of retired , with only around 14% of the population of pensionable age , and just 5% aged 75 and over . |
| 11 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 12 | Loggers , they said , were getting a crack at 74% of the forests — with only 14% of the region receiving new protection . |
| 13 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 14 | Secondly , under-reporting can be further suspected because no cases of endometriosis were reported in the 14% of the population in whom female sterilisation was the method of contraception . |
| 15 | Education is one of the largest consumers of public money : the total expenditure on education in 1989–90 by central and local government in the United Kingdom was an estimated 24.1 billion , some 14% of the total spending on all services . |
| 16 | In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited . |
| 17 | Only one session was necessary to disintegrate 34% of solitary stones smaller than 20 mm , 11% of the solitary stones between 21 and 30 mm , and 14% of the multiple stones . |
| 18 | In a condition that affects up to 14% of the population , organic disease is bound to coexist in some . |
| 19 | This last exception leads to an absurdity whereby a contract ( say , to install new kitchen units for a cash price of £2,000 payable immediately on completion of the work ) which would otherwise be cancellable , will be excepted if it contains a term that £35 of the price is not payable until , say , six months after completion . |
| 20 | Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive . |
| 21 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 22 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 23 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 24 | Although together these elements comprise only about 22 ppm of the Earth 's crust they have many industrial uses , particularly as homogenous catalysts , as well as in less obvious areas such as cancer chemotherapy and in car exhaust systems . |
| 25 | The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time . |
| 26 | The Princess Royal travelled in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight . |
| 27 | Her Royal Highness travelled in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight . |
| 28 | Her Royal Highess travelled in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight . |
| 29 | His Royal Highness , who travelled in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight , is attended by Mr Andrew Palmer . |
| 30 | The Princess of Wales travelled in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight . |