Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 2 | He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting . |
| 3 | Because saliva contains relatively high concentrations of alkali , accounting for about 3% of bicarbonate within the oesophagus , it is important that amylase concentrations measured in oesophageal fluid accurately reflect salivary contamination . |
| 4 | As well as allowing us to buy priority tickets and get away tickets , you get a quite nice yearbook ( 3.5 quids worth ) , 10% of goods from the shop and discounts from home games . |
| 5 | Another paper describing the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation is Narin 1987 , but this restricts itself to publication counts and citations , deriving a new indicator , the Top Decile Performance , which is that percent of an Institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 6 | It is defined as the percent of an institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 7 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 8 | This enables the labour market model to be estimated in both quarterly form and also provides data of interest in the field . |
| 9 | Mr McCartney said a survey revealed that 40pc of households in the estate had no car and 60pc could not afford an annual holiday . |
| 10 | Only 13% of antral tumours were surrounded by histologically normal mucosa compared with over 50% of tumours in the cardia . |
| 11 | An estimated 50% of women in the world who want to stop having children are able to fulfil that wish by these means . |
| 12 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
| 13 | The project is contained in a Scottish Office consultation document proposing £200m-plus of improvements to the trunk road system south of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 15 | If , for example , a survey showed that 80% of people in an area were concerned about their health and their diet , the retailer might consider stocking a line of health foods and ‘ natural ’ products . |
| 16 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 17 | According to recent figures published in ERT ( the journal of the electrical trade ) , a family of four using a dishwasher will have 30 kWh of electricity in a year . |
| 18 | With back titration , swallowed saliva accounted for a median 17% of alkali within the oesophagus whereas refluxed gastric alkali contributed 1.0% . |
| 19 | June 11 : 110kg of cannabis with a street value of IR£1.2m seized in Skibbereen . |
| 20 | He has studied the offspring of women with a history of schizophrenia who have been adopted by non-schizophrenic mothers . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there remains a high risk of fetal damage in offspring of women with the disease , and the possibility that the diets themselves may be harmful can not be excluded . |
| 22 | The star of the Volkswagen adverts , who earns £1,000 a day , has paid only £21.50 of fees over a court case , says the company . |
| 23 | If you extend £100,000 of credit for a period of one year and during that year the inflation rate averages 10 per cent per annum , you will have effectively lost £1 0,000 even if you are paid in full and right on time . |
| 24 | In 1993/94 £100,000 of capital under a deed of appointment is paid for the benefit of Mr X. The relevant income in 1992/93 was £20,000 , in 1993/94 £50,000 and in 1994/95 £70,000. £70,000 of the £100,000 will be treated as Mr X 's income for 1993/94 and £30,000 will be treated as Mr X 's income for 1994/95 . |
| 25 | It is understood the inquiry relates to the alleged theft of £100,000 of scaffolding from a company called Deborah Grayston Scaffolding . |
| 26 | In October the Coast Guard made the largest maritime seizure when they found 11,500 lb of cocaine on a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 27 | Coal imports will also increase considerably probably reaching some 20% of demand by the year 2000 . |
| 28 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 29 | The men were paid a rate depending upon the nature of the ground and were producing 2½ tons a week , giving a yield of 2–3 cwt. of metal in the ton but none more than 3 . |
| 30 | Then we all moved out to watch the ceremony of Beating Retreat by the Band and Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards . |