Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' share of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until it slipped last year , British manufacturers ' share of the volume of world exports had been broadly stable at 7% since 1981 , after falling continuously since the 1950s . |
| 2 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 3 | Compared with the previous local elections in 1988 , the four coalition parties ' share of the vote fell by 5.8 per cent , with the right-wing National Coalition Party ( KOK ) the main loser , its share falling by 4 per cent . |
| 4 | Some firms have resisted : Kellogg , which has seen own-labels ' share of the cereal market double since 1988 , is now emblazoning its boxes with the slogan ‘ We do n't make cereal for anyone else . ’ |
| 5 | Importers ' share of the market last month was 53.78pc compared with 54pc in February , 1992 . |
| 6 | During that time these countries ' share of world energy consumption will rise from just over one-fifth to almost one-third of total consumption . |
| 7 | The result is a sharp jump in developing countries ' share of world output , to 34% from 18% on the old method . |
| 8 | The Conservatives ' share of the vote was 14.6 per cent , compared with 19.8 per cent in the previous local elections in 1985 [ see pp. 34505-06 ] . |
| 9 | The result nevertheless represented an improvement on Les verts ' share of 0.35 per cent of the vote in the first round of the last legislative elections in 1988 . |
| 10 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers ' share of the much smaller total of numbers in full-time work fell by over 3 percentage points : from 26.7 to 23.3 per cent . |
| 12 | INGRES HAS LIONS ' SHARE OF WORKSTATION DATABASE MARKET |
| 13 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 14 | As the 1988 Education Reform Act comes into effect , the local authorities ' share of educational expenditure is diminishing and will probably continue to diminish , though it is impossible to predict by how much . |
| 15 | From 1980 to 1992 , the multilaterals ' share of African debt grew from 19% to 28% . |
| 16 | As firms ' share of total deposits has ballooned , so Sberbank 's relative power has shrivelled . |
| 17 | The £1 million is the particle physicists ' share of the extra cost of Britain 's subscriptions to international laboratories , such as CERN , caused by the weakness of the pound . |
| 18 | Please find enclosed a cheque for £250 from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council as a contribution towards the School Governors ' share of the cost of the new extension as mentioned at the recent Parish Council meeting . |
| 19 | The industrial economies ' share of world output may already have dropped below half . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 21 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
| 22 | By 1988 the programme had shifted 600,000 jobs from the public to the private sector and reduced the nationalized industries ' share of GDP to 6.5 per cent . |
| 23 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 24 | In 1954 , the last full year of the Peronist era , the wage-earners ' share of the national income was 30.6 per cent , an all-time high ( LAWR 1983 ) . |
| 25 | As the US share of world exports has declined , the US multinationals ' share of world trade of manufactured goods actually increased between 1966 and 1984 ( Lipsey and Kravis , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The unions ' share of the vote at the party conference will again be reduced , and will no longer be cast by union leaders in monolithic blocks . |
| 27 | As the chart ( right ) shows , despite the recession and the birth of a new generation , the Tories ' share of the popular vote has not varied by two percentage points since Mrs Thatcher 's 1979 victory . |
| 28 | The Tories ' share of the vote is not as high as in the 1950s under Winston Churchill , Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan , but it now appears impregnable to attacks by the other parties . |
| 29 | In the 1950 election the Tories ' share of the vote recovered significantly , with Labour losing support among the middle classes of the southern suburbs in particular , although the Labour Party could still rely on enthusiastic working class support ( the turnout at the 1950 election was the highest ever ) . |
| 30 | Figure 2.2 shows that spirits ' share of consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks has fallen from 28.9% in 1979 to 23.8% in 1991 . |