Example sentences of "of [pron] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official final results announced on March 4 showed that turnout had been 82.86 per cent of voters , of whom 77.83 per cent had voted " yes " . |
| 2 | Another household member was not working because of the cystic fibrosis of 63/737 ( 9% ) respondents , of whom 37 ( 58% ) were parents , 13 ( 21% ) partners , and 8 ( 13% ) siblings or other relatives . |
| 3 | Out of a force of 17,700 , of whom 10,600 were Italian and the rest native troops , over 6000 were killed , nearly 1500 were wounded and between 3000 and 4000 were taken prisoner . |
| 4 | They showed that there were in all 3,575,032 voters on the electoral registers , of whom 2,677,764 , or 74.9 per cent , had voted . |
| 5 | A total of 2984 patients were photographed , of whom 1225 lived in urban areas , 961 in rural areas , and 798 in mixed areas . |
| 6 | The town contains about 70,000 people of whom 30,000 have fled from other areas . |
| 7 | Religion : Mostly Christian , of whom 95 per cent are Roman Catholic , with numerous other denominations , the largest being Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church ; small Moslem and Jewish minorities . |
| 8 | A 33% random sample of subjects ( n=184 ) was selected for intensive study , of whom 181 ( 98% ) agreed to participate . |
| 9 | Sixteen patients refused , of whom 14 were replaced by another patient from the 12 for each doctor . |
| 10 | In 1988 the estimated population of the United Kingdom was 57.1 million ( CSO 1990 ) of whom 8.9 million , or 15 per cent of the total population , were aged 65 years or older . |
| 11 | The 1988 census had recorded Bhutan 's population as 1,370,000 , of whom 45 per cent were ethnic Nepalese , but in the following year King Jigme claimed that all but 28,000 Nepalese were illegal immigrants . |
| 12 | We examined expression of ET-1 in lung tissue from 52 patients with interstitial lung fibrosis , of whom 45 had cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis ( CFA ) , 10 had CFA and concomitant pulmonary hypertension , and 7 had non-specific focal fibrosis. 17 normal unused donor lungs were studied as controls . |
| 13 | Is my hon. Friend aware that Britain now has more than 3 million self-employed people , of whom 750,000 are women , many of them in south Derbyshire ? |
| 14 | Yet by the end of 1926 its strength would rise to 417,300 , of whom 28.8 per cent were industrial workers , and 13.5 per cent independent traders , including kustary . |
| 15 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 16 | Altogether , 1267 ( 18.8% ) women were seropositive , of whom 731 ( 57.7% ) had been born outside Britain ( table ) . |
| 17 | After the war and the acquisition of the West Bank , the population rose to 1,280,000 , of whom 850,000 , or 66 per cent , were Palestinian . |
| 18 | Since Charles 's father claimed the throne of England as well as Scotland , however , he was virtually obliged to take the initiative and eventually , on Friday 1 November 1745 , the 5–6000 men of the Jacobite army , of whom 300–500 were cavalry , marched out of Edinburgh heading south and at Dalkeith split into two columns , one led by the Duke of Perth , going via Peebles , Moffat , Lockerbie and Ecclefechan , the other , led by Charles on foot , through Kelso , Jedburgh and Hawick . |
| 19 | Compare this with Gloucester , for instance , which tested 300 drivers last year , of whom 75 proved positive ; or Thames Valley police who this year recorded 332 breath tests in the ten days up to 30 December . |
| 20 | In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees . |
| 21 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 22 | The party ran only 148 candidates , of whom 136 were elected , a larger proportion than in recent elections , but far short of the 257 seats required for an overall majority in the 512-member House of Representatives . |
| 23 | At that year 's annual general meeting there were ‘ about 35 ’ present of whom one-third were reporters . |
| 24 | There were 900,000 foreigners in Belgium ( of whom one-third came from Africa ) out of a total population of 9,800,000 . |
| 25 | The supporters of the Government totalled 556 , of whom 472 were Conservatives . |
| 26 | The new assembly consisted of 141 constituency seats ( in 45 of which a candidate was returned unopposed , but five of which remained vacant because the candidates were disqualified before the poll ) , and a number of additional members appointed by the President , of whom 10 were named on June 30 . |
| 27 | As the direct result of Gouzenko 's information 21 people were charged with various offences of whom 11 were convicted , two had charges withdrawn , and eight were acquitted . |
| 28 | The number of people in the working age group ( 16 – 65 ) was 32 million in 1985 , of whom 26 million were economically active ( Thompson 1987 ) The age group will grow marginally till the end of the century but due to the precipitate drop in the younger age groups a sustained period of ageing within the working population has begun . |
| 29 | Between 1970 and 1981 , the agricultural population of Latin America increased by 8 million persons , of whom 4 million are described as producers , 5 million as peasant farmers and 1 million as landless workers , who must therefore seek work in wage-earning occupations ( ECLAC/FAO 1985 ) . |
| 30 | At a titre of 300 ELISA units , the assay has a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 96% when measured against the standard of histological examination or culture of endoscopic antral biopsy specimens or both ( in house data based on 100 patients of whom 62 had H pylori gastritis . ) |