Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But coal accounts for only 19% of Soviet energy production . |
| 2 | Even with oil accounting for only 35% of total demand , net imports of oil will still be over 400 million tonnes per year by the end of the century and including coal and gas imports the actual amount of energy imports will rise between 1983 and the year 2000 by some 200 million tonnes to represent 45% of consumption . |
| 3 | Home shopping as a whole accounts for only 3% of retail spending . |
| 4 | Most previous research on economic restructuring has focused on job loss and geographical shifts in investment in manufacturing industry , but manufacturing accounts for only 26% of all employment today and the Thanet area provides an opportunity to examine restructuring processes in an area dominated by the services sector . |
| 5 | Britain has the smallest private-rental sector of any industrial economy , accounting for only 7% of all tenure , compared with 45% in Germany and 33% in America . |
| 6 | For just £1.00 for each feature , you can receive any of those listed above . |
| 7 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 8 | Using this argument , a ratio of general government expenditure on goods and services of approximately 32% of National Income would appear to be the most appropriate measure . |
| 9 | You are invited to become a friend of The Georgian Theatre Royal for a contribution of just £20 for one year . |
| 10 | Together with other costs such as collection/delivery by road and transfer operations , the total for each intermodal load movement worked out at £373 , a saving of just £7 on pure road haulage . |
| 11 | This consists of fortnightly meetings within each department of the hotel which offer all staff a chance to discuss the way their hotel is run and allows them an opportunity to make suggestions for ways to improve the service they provide . |
| 12 | A prize of nearly £2,000 for top dairy cattle has encouraged a huge entry of 777 animals , bucking downward national trends . |
| 13 | As a result , by 1956/7 , although there remained a cumulative backlog of nearly 1800MW of uncompleted power station capacity , the system was capable of meeting the demands placed on it in a mild winter , and power cuts had by then become a rare occurrence . |
| 14 | The dental index in the study by Mattila et al was composed of both severity of periodontal disease and dental caries , suggesting that dental decay may contribute to the risk of coronary heart disease . |
| 15 | Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC . |
| 16 | In early October the advisory committee , representing the 450 creditor banks , had announced that Venezuela had paid $900,000,000 in accumulated arrears of interest payments following the granting of a bridging loan of about $600,000,000 by 25 creditor banks in September [ see p. 37313 for March 1990 debt reduction agreement ] . |
| 17 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 18 | In both groups there was a fall of about 50% in duodenogastric reflux after smoking a single cigarette ( controls , 1.3–0.7 ml h - 1 and patients , 33.0–14.7 ml h - 1 ( Table I ) . |
| 19 | There were three babies with chronic lung disease in the random group and none in the regulated group , but the total in the study is too small to say if either figure is different from the expected incidence of about 10% in this population of babies . |
| 20 | This compares with a bill of around £600 in this country , including solicitors ' costs and mortgage evaluation fee , but not including Stamp Duty ( at least until August ) . |
| 21 | Pure Wool Aran will retail at a cost of around £2.24 per 100 gram ball . |
| 22 | OLYMPIAKOS Piraeus and Atletico Madrid of Spain have been fined a total of almost £100,000 for serious crowd and player trouble during their European Cup Winners ' Cup clash on March 4 . |
| 23 | Albany Life 's Executive Term Assurance ( 0707 669000 ) is designed for individuals or companies wanting key man cover of over £500,000 at low cost . |
| 24 | Taxpayers pay the equivalent of over £60 for each person in the EEC to the CAP budget each year ( Consumers and the Common Agricultural policy , National Consumer Council , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins . |
| 26 | An efficient port transport system is vital to Britain 's economy as trade accounts for nearly 60% of national income and over 90% of all imports and exports pass through the nations ports . |
| 27 | This is because the large 26-way tree ( over 15Mb ) had to page ( swap ) its memory , because it was running on a file server with only 12Mb of physical memory . |
| 28 | It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness . |
| 29 | The first coat of varnish applied to new wood can be thinned with approximately 10% of white spirit . |
| 30 | Water condition : Soft water , with slightly acid to neutral water with a pH of 6.6–7.0 . |