Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandys accepted the General Staff view after his visit to Kenya , during which he came under pressure from the settlers to give confidence by building permanent barracks for the Strategic Reserve units likely to be stationed there . |
| 2 | Only Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which has been chosen as an out-group is unreliably positioned in the presented tree as the bootstrap values are lower than 80% between the connecting intermediate modes of the three eukaryotic kingdoms of fungi , plant , and animals . |
| 3 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 4 | 1991 saw total Unix systems revenue in Europe climb to $6.9bn from $6bn in 1990. 1991 's growth of 15% is two points up on 1990 's 13% — IDC predicts a mean compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 14% for the next six years , by which time it believes the European market will be worth some $16.3bn . |
| 5 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |
| 6 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 7 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 8 | A new budget of £1,500 for the next six months should be enough for local advertising . |
| 9 | Bomber Command lost over 500 aircraft during the next few months over Berlin , and when you consider that this meant 3,500 fully trained men , it can be realised that it was a critical time . |
| 10 | DEC claims its UK workstation business will grow at a compound annual rate of 2% or 3% for the next few years , and ambitiously predicts its will overhaul Sun to become market leader by 1995/96 . |
| 11 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 12 | The World Data Matrix ( Appendix A ) contains data for the largest 100 countries of the world and some of the African countries whose borders have been digitized are not included . |
| 13 | In addition to Desulfobacter and Desulfovibrio , we have included data for the dissimilatory Fe(III) reducers Geobacter and Shewanella . |
| 14 | On present policies , according to Jeremy Lawrence , we ‘ risk creating a pensioner underclass that the new private sources of income can not reach ’ ( New Society , 5 June 1987 ; the data for the last three paragraphs is drawn from the same source ) . |
| 15 | But the Alliance was small fry against the nuclear public relations machine . |
| 16 | In the three months August to October , the amount of new credit advanced to consumers totalled £11.77bn , compared with £11.99bn in the previous three months . |
| 17 | Spending of convertible currencies on imported cars had reached $200,000,000 in the first 11 months of 1989 and had caused a considerable drain on currency reserves . |
| 18 | ‘ We have already cut £6.5m in the last two years and lost 80 jobs last year , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 19 | Beach capable of bigger cod in the next few weeks . |
| 20 | He is likely to be put on an aircraft in the next few days . |
| 21 | Of 77 trips aboard specially commandeered aircraft in the past two years , Sununu had designated only four as unofficial . |
| 22 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 23 | The Pentagon announced that women pilots in the navy and air force would be allowed to fly combat aircraft within the next few months . |
| 24 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
| 25 | The Board have upped the fines in the Nat West Trophy and the B&H Cup from the previously meaningless level of £100 per over not bowled by curfew time to an escalating scale ranging from £220 in the first two rounds to £330 in the quarter-finals , £660 in the semi-finals and … wait for it , £1320 per unbowled over in the final . |
| 26 | Income has dropped by £80million in the past 2 years and travellers will have to help bail them out . |
| 27 | AST is third in US market share among portable computer makers , Edwards said , and overall unit growth was up about 65% in the first nine months of the current fiscal . |
| 28 | The resulting expert system was built from historical data from 15 boards and tested with the data from a further 3 examples and gave similar results to the first expert system built . |
| 29 | When tested on the data from a further 9 boards , repaired since the initial data was collected , the resulting expert system correctly identified the faulty component on two thirds of the occasions and indicated the correct area on the remaining one third . |
| 30 | As expected , the data from the 33 children who did not recover when compared with the data from the 57 recovered children showed significantly higher incidence rates of symptoms of constipation at follow up ; very large diameter stools , very hard stool consistency , stools that clogged the toilet , stool withholding ( p<0.001 ) , abdominal pain ( p<0.04 ) , and a significant decrease in the number of bowel movements per week ( p<0.001 ) . |