Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] of [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF on June 3 announced approval of a standby loan of SDR300 million ( US$404,000,000 ) in support of the government 's economic reform programme . |
| 2 | They have had a mortgage with the Abbey National for four years and recently took up the offer of a fixed rate of 10.99% until 1999 . |
| 3 | Since sterling entered the ERM in October 1990 , UK monetary policy has been wholly subordinated to maintaining the currency within its permitted fluctuation band ( 6% either side of a central rate of DM2.95 to the pound ) . |
| 4 | On May 17th the krona was pegged to the ecu , within 1.5% either side of a central rate of SKr7.40 . |
| 5 | Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness . |
| 6 | On May 5 a US Defence Department spokesperson announced that the US contribution to the war costs had been almost US$6,000 million , out of a total cost of US$61,000 million . |
| 7 | The IMF agreement was expected to open the way for further lending by the World Bank and by Western countries and Japan in the framework of the Group of 24 [ ibid. ] , and on March 30 the European Communities ( EC ) approved payment of the first tranche , 350,000,000 European currency units ( ECUs ) , of a five-year loan of ECU870,000,000 ( US$1,000 million ) , requested by Hungary in November 1989 and approved in principle by EC heads of government at their Strasbourg summit meeting in December [ see p. 37132 ] . |
| 8 | Despite this diplomatic isolation , an estimated 40 per cent rise in oil revenues due to the Gulf crisis ( which prompted November forecasts of a current-account surplus of US$2,650 million instead of a feared deficit of $950 million ) was expected to accelerate international investment and involvement in the development of the country 's hydrocarbon sector . |
| 9 | As Robyn continues , the only interference with the sound of her voice is the occasional ripping noise of a filled-up page of A4 being hurriedly detached from its parent pad . |
| 10 | It is the first of a promised family of RS/6000 RISC-based serial and parallel systems and part of the ‘ parallel revolution ’ that IBM believes is destined to transform both technical and commercial computing markets alike . |
| 11 | Of a net inflow of 9.5bn , 8.3bn went into UK company securities . |
| 12 | Reference may also be usefully made to the recently determined structure of a soluble form of CD8 ( ref.34 ) . |
| 13 | Figure 4.4 shows the result of a quantitative analysis of /Ε/; realizations in two Belfast outer-city communities ( Andersonstown and Braniel ) and a smaller town ( Lurgan ) situated 17 miles southwest of Belfast . |
| 14 | To refer to one man expressing his legitimate grievance as ‘ people like you ’ again serves to perpetuate this myth of a small bank of ne-er do wells who exist solely to harass poor , inoffensive Mr Jackson . |
| 15 | Geoffrey Howson 's meticulously researched study of mathematics education in England is written along biographical lines , and it 's compulsive reading ; not least because of a pervasive sense of déjà vu . |
| 16 | The current TEI development cycle comes to an end in July 1993 , following the presentation of a completed draft of P2 to the project 's Advisory Board , meeting in Chicago at the end of June . |
| 17 | Activation of a significant fraction of CD4 cells by a superantigen would greatly increase the number of cells susceptible to virus infection and replication and , at the anergic phase , allow provirus to remain latent in some of these cells . |
| 18 | With the Hanoverians secure on the throne ( especially after the defeat of a second and more serious Jacobite revolt in Scotland in 1745–46 ) , with the grant of a considerable degree of de facto toleration to the Dissenters , the questions which had dominated internal politics in the reign of Anne appeared to have been settled . |
| 19 | During last year I came into possession of a large quantity of 1/4in router bits . |
| 20 | ( ii ) The critical hatching requirements of most eggs which ensure the appearance of a large number of L3 on the pasture simultaneously , usually in May and June . |
| 21 | Goodnight , ladies , ’ he continued with a cheerful wave , as he and Karelius made their way past a waiting crowd of belles de nuit . |
| 22 | On the contrary , there was a tendency towards a reduced proportion of IgG2 in healthy and affected Crohn 's disease twins as well as in the previously analysed Crohn 's disease colitis patients with moderate or severe mucosal inflammation . |
| 23 | I am delighted to share his wish for a modern recording of Die Liebe der Danae but is it ‘ musically much superior ’ ? |
| 24 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 25 | The normal corporate tax rate is 31% and personal tax is calculated on a sliding scale , reaching a maximum of 30% for a taxable income of S$800,000 a year . |
| 26 | The 1991 budget , approved in January , provided for a total income of C385,000 million and expenditure of C341,000 million . |
| 27 | A Cabinet was appointed to govern for a transitional period of 2@1/2 years . |
| 28 | All- trans retinoic acid ( 25mgml -1 in dimethylsulphoxide ) was diluted 1/10 in sesame seed oil and 200μl of this was given to pregnant females at 7.5d.p.c. by gavage for a final dose of 20mgkg -1 as previously described . |
| 29 | They did business for a declared total of FFr100 million — only half last year 's already poor performance and the same as that of 1987 , the first year figures were kept . |
| 30 | In later years one or two animals were adopted , along with their natural movements , to form the nucleus for a complete system of kung fu . |