Example sentences of "of [pron] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 2 | Seventy years later the population had risen to 22.7 million , of whom 62% lived in towns and cities . |
| 3 | The local points of contact on these and all other SCOTVEC matters are the team of nine Field Officers , each of whom works in a defined geographical area . |
| 4 | These courses have a minimum of 2 weeks duration with between 4 and 6 hours of daily tuition given by a team of two or three experienced teachers , each of whom works on a specific language area . |
| 5 | In total , 10314 civil servants participated , of whom 67% ( 6900 ) were men and 33% ( 3414 ) were women . |
| 6 | Thus , in the early 1980s , 86% of the non-white population aged under 16 were born in Britain compared with 14% born overseas ; this is the exact reverse of the figures for those over 16 , of whom 14% were born in Britain and 86% overseas ( OPCS , 1986 , p. 20 , Table 4 ) . |
| 7 | 45% of the respondents were non-enrollers , of whom 14% lacked the entry qualifications to get onto the courses we covered in the study . |
| 8 | In 1988 a larger team moved to Tooting , at the invitation of the Shaftesbury Society , and in eighteen months grew to a group of 150 attending worship , of whom 70% are new converts . |
| 9 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 10 | Many belong to the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools ( IAPS ) , which has approximately 114,000 pupils , of whom 71% are boys . |
| 11 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |
| 12 | Bruguiere ( 1789 ) split the Linnaean Buccinum ( 47 species ) into four divisions , calling one of them Purpura-a name used by the ancients for the whelks from which their purple dye was extracted ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 13 | The hotel manager charged each of them £10 for three single rooms , totalling £30 . |
| 14 | The handicapper has given both of them 10st , with last year 's winner Waterloo Boy heading the weights on 12st . |
| 15 | Coral reefs and atolls present a series of complex problems , involving ecological questions concerning the organisms involved , most of them species of coral , and geomorphological questions of the ultimate origin and present modification of these features . |
| 16 | Their dangerous truths are left in the hands of politicians , some of them people who are driven by little things , like the desire for personal power , and who do n't understand the explosive possibilities of what they have been given ; or if they understand , do n't care . |
| 17 | Er you , you s a lot of them people did apply but er they just did n't you know they did n't get in . |
| 18 | she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first |
| 19 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 20 | No I 'm one of them people with no bloody arms ! |
| 21 | But the sort of chromea and all that sort of lends itself to one of them aircraft things does n't |
| 22 | Most of them fish legally for sharks , but some still illegally net totoaba , and the 125- and 150-mm ( 5 and 6-inch ) mesh nets they use continue to drown the vaquita . |
| 23 | Some of them fish , with fins and tails . |
| 24 | He paid one of them £300 ‘ who , because I employed another to fit up my last room , out of pique arrested me for the balance . ’ |
| 25 | When told of my 6lb line , or whatever it was , the reply has usually taken the form of , ‘ Six pound ! |
| 26 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 27 | It wo n't be dilute , therefore part of my offspring will find their reproductive success enhanced by one hundred percent offspring will find their reproductive success enhanced by one hundred percent . |
| 28 | Big Lou hired John Surtees and offered him the whole of my £27,000 budget for drivers , leaving nothing for Jackie Oliver . |
| 29 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 30 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |