Example sentences of "of [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Second , the figure of 97 per cent of workplaces with fewer than 20 people , is , in itself , meaningless . |
| 32 | Mr Foster said he thought that the Durham Service 's rate of 97 per cent of call-outs having an arrival time of less than 19 minutes was ‘ creditable ’ . |
| 33 | DNase I was purchased from Sigma , dissolved in 20mM NaCl containing 1mM MgCl 2 at a concentration of 7200 units/ml and stored at -20°C . |
| 34 | For passing such orders on to them , a discount of 33⅓ % was easily earned . |
| 35 | An increase of 51.7 per cent was forecast in the state development budget owing to increased foreign assistance contributions and project loans . |
| 36 | The fall calls into question Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont 's justification in his March budget for imposing VAT on domestic fuel as being necessary to help reduce energy consumption and to meet the target , to which the UK is committed , of stabilising CO2 emissions at the 1990 level of 160 million tonnes by 2000 . |
| 37 | The UK claims it is making its contribution to reducing emissions by imposing value added tax ( VAT ) on domestic fuel ; the government says the VAT measures make it less likely that a carbon tax will be needed to meet the target of stabilising CO2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 . |
| 38 | A back pass from player-manager Hoddle seemed to catch Hammond by surprise and the goalkeeper hit the ball straight to the feet of Posh 's Tony Adcock , who put it into an empty net . |
| 39 | A national referendum held on June 9 and 10 resulted in an unexpectedly large majority of 95.6 per cent in favour of a package of reforms to the voting procedure for parliamentary elections . |
| 40 | With her bags , and eager to fulfil her life 's dreams through elopement , Catherine waits … in Washington Square of 1850 's New York at the height of fashion and sophistication . |
| 41 | A turnout of 99.5 per cent was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency in elections held from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7 for 50 of the 60 members of the Khalk Maslakhaty ( People 's Council ) , set up as the supreme body of state power under the Turkmen Constitution adopted in May , and comprising one member from each electoral district . |
| 42 | After 10 years during which the lira had enjoyed a fluctuation band of 6 per cent against its central rate within the European monetary system ( EMS ) , the government decided on Jan. 5 , 1990 , to adopt for the lira the narrower band of 2.25 per cent which applied to all member currencies except the Spanish peseta [ see also pp. 36741 ; 37196 ] . |
| 43 | Erm , then she becomes a sort of literal th the vampire , as it were , is reduced and she becomes just a wild thing . |
| 44 | Seats* Percentage Proportional Constituency Total of vote** representation seats BSP 47.15 97 114 211 UDF 37.84 75 69 144 BZNS 8.03 16 0 16 MRF 6.03 12 11 23 Fatherland Union *** 0 2 2 BSDP 0.05 0 1 1 Fatherland Party of Labour *** 0 1 1 Independents *** 0 2 2 Others 0.90 0 0 0 Total 200 200 400 *Only parties receiving at least 4 per cent of valid votes in all multi-member constituencies could win seats on a proportional basis ( although other parties could and did win direct election ) . |
| 45 | Pancreatic contents of DNA and RNA were assayed by the fluorimetric method of Boer but using an excitation wavelength of 536 nm and an emission wavelength of 602 nm . |
| 46 | One of Prudential 's first moves under its new chief executive was to close down its estate agency business , which began in 1985 . |
| 47 | Other insurers were firmer in the wake of Prudential 's results with Sun Alliance a penny up at 372p , General Accident 2p better at 670p and Commercial Union also 2p higher at 607p . |
| 48 | Other insurers were generally firmer in the wake of Prudential 's results with Commercial Union 3p higher at 608p and General Accident up a penny at 669p and Guardian Royal 3p firmer at 219p . |
| 49 | Patients with concomitant alcoholic hepatopathy/cirrhosis presented with a mean haemoglobin value of 10.1 f% ( 1.5 g% ) . |
| 50 | Unadjusted unemployment increased by 49,657 to 2,864,069 in November , a rate of 10.1 per cent . |
| 51 | and male unemployment of 10.1 per cent . |
| 52 | The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the whole of the UK was in October at a five-year high of 10.1 per cent . |
| 53 | Recent studies of sulphate absorption in man indicate that on a diet of 16.6 mmol/d about 12 mmol would be expected to reach the colon . |
| 54 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 55 | In terms of the statistics directly employed to assess regional economic performance , by far the widest exposure tends to be given to measurements of regional per capita GDP . |
| 56 | Subjects fasted from midnight and in the morning a primed continuous intravenous infusion of soluble insulin ( in a 4% solution of the subject 's blood in 0.9% saline ) was started , with a maintenance rate of 1.5 mU/kg/min . |
| 57 | Saline ( 0.9% NaCl , wt/wt ) was continuously infused into a jugular veing at a rate of 1.5 ml/h to avoid dehydration . |
| 58 | It profited handsomely from the division of the non-Conservative vote between Labour and Alliance , and from the exaggerating effects of the British electoral system ; compared to 1979 , a decline of 1.5 per cent in share of the vote had produced a trebling of the government 's overall majority in seats from 44 to 144 in 1983 and to 100 in 1987 . |
| 59 | Moreover , for the North Side , the neighbourhood had a relatively high percentage of households that earned more than $50,000 in 1980 , close to the city average of 1.5 per cent . |
| 60 | Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 per cent per annum . |