Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it believes it has a technological lead of around a year in the RISC notebook market , Gilkes does n't expect Tadpole to have the ground all to itself for much longer . |
| 2 | The town has a working population of around 700 , so the closures will put one in ten on the dole . |
| 3 | Party discipline in the Senate is even weaker than in the House ; several powerful senators have a better-than-nodding acquaintance with the petrochemical industry ; and the Senate Finance Committee , which starts looking at the bill on June 7th , has a Democratic majority of only 11 to nine . |
| 4 | The first thing to remember is that the England and Wales of 1700 has a total population of only five and a half million people . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom has a total population of about 57 million , divided unevenly among its four constituent countries as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 6 | To give an idea of the desolation of some of the villages ( in the Saratov area ) ( may mention that the village of Kano , in the Markstadt district , which has a normal population of over 3,000 , has now only 1,100 inhabitants left , and remember the winter is only just beginning . |
| 7 | In the west of Leicester 's urban area , Newton ward , with population 20 440 , has a fitted value of only 13 495 and is badly fitted by all the models examined . |
| 8 | Only around 100 people live there — Liz knows them all , and has a marvellous photograph of almost everyone , from 80- year-olds to tiny babies , gathered together outside their house . |
| 9 | Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m . |
| 10 | This group has a six-week mortality of only about 2.5% . |
| 11 | The peptide specifically enriched by the SSB oligonucleotide has a molecular weight of approximately 40k . |
| 12 | ‘ The museum itself has a representative display of locally produced lustred earthenwares . ’ |
| 13 | Their salinities vary according to how long ago their waters were left to evaporate , and the amount of fresh water entering them annually ; of the four main lakes , Deep Lake , the deepest ( 34 m ) and most salty , has a mean salinity of approximately 280ppt , roughly eight times that of sea water and similar in density to Dead Sea water . |
| 14 | Oceanic crust has a mean density of about 3000 kg m -1 and is composed of layers of basic rocks , broadly basaltic and gabbroic in composition , with a thin veneer of sediments . |
| 15 | The first stage in the manufacture of ‘ Melinar ’ is the production of base polyethylene terephthalate , for which ICI has a European capacity of about 120 kt , part at Wilton and part at Rozenburg . |
| 16 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 17 | The company has a current turnover of around £10m and will be opening a new office in Duke Street , Darlington in March . |
| 18 | The MacDonalds box has a useful life of only several minutes , but languishes for decades in litter or landfill . |
| 19 | He also has a great pair of extremely shabby second-hand jeans that look brilliant ! ’ |
| 20 | By contrast , the body responsible for registering and monitoring information collected by credit reference agencies has a register of about 130 000 entries , deals with about 20 000 enquiries a year , and has a full-time staff of more than 70 . |
| 21 | If you are clear who you are writing to and address them directly , the tone of your letter has a good chance of appropriately expressing your message . |
| 22 | He 's in his late forties , tall , has a good deal of rather wild , greying hair , and a cardigan that must have been home-made . |
| 23 | I suppose this opens the debate about whether a limited edition guitar like this one , which has a projected run of only 200 units , is ever likely to be used as an everyday instrument , or whether it is destined to end up mute behind glass in a collection somewhere . |
| 24 | Suppose a machine which has a known life of only two years is expected to yield £242 each year . |
| 25 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 26 | The 2-litre Twin Spark version develops 148 HP , a torque of 19 kg/m at 4,000 rpp , and has a top speed of over 210 koh . |
| 27 | However , the machine has a basic memory of only 128K , a not-very-standard keyboard and screen , no disk drive , and an operating system called DOS , which stands for DIP Operating System , after the machine 's British designers . |
| 28 | It has a permanent stock of about 10,000 pipes of wines and ships about fifty per cent of the island 's wine exports . |
| 29 | The Edinburgh Room has a unique collection of over 25,000 books and 21,000 prints relating to the history of the city . |
| 30 | Serbia in the ‘ wide ’ sense , including Vojvodina and Kosovo , has a resident population of more than 9 million , although less than 7 million of these are Serbs . |