Example sentences of "[noun] make [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Austria the Germans made up 36.8 per cent of the population . |
| 2 | Along with orders to France and Scandinavia , exports make up 75 per cent of ANTA 's business . |
| 3 | Arthropods make up three-quarters of all known present day animal species . |
| 4 | Company cars make up 60 per cent of the sales . |
| 5 | The basic theoretical problem had been to show how two or more autonomous and contradictory totalizations make up one dialectical intelligibility : to do this he needed to totalize the classes in struggle , and to discover the synthetic unity of a conflictual society . |
| 6 | Tamils made up twenty-two per cent of Colombo residents , Moors nineteen per cent , and Burghers eight per cent . |
| 7 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 8 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 9 | Bottles make up 51 per cent of the total , all but three being from Kent , the important exceptions being from the seventh-century rich graves of Asthall ( Oxfordshire ) and Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) . |
| 10 | Black and other ethnic communities make up 47 per cent of Newham 's 220,000 population . |
| 11 | This type makes up 70 per cent of new loans , although it was almost unheard of a decade ago . |
| 12 | The Family Islands make up one of the groups of tiny islands within the Bahamas . |
| 13 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 14 | For the same period in Britain these workers made up 20 per cent of the workforce . |
| 15 | Vamplew suggests shareholding was rather more democratically distributed in Scotland with skilled manual workers making up 19.1 per cent of shareholders in twenty-three clubs up to 1916 . |
| 16 | Pedestrians make up one third of road user deaths , the largest single category . |
| 17 | Not all Unionist MPs ever supported the coalition , but almost all of them took the Whip at some time ; the Unionists made up three-quarters of the government side of the House . |
| 18 | Kosovo , where Albanians made up 90 per cent of the province 's population of 2,000,000 , remained a thorny issue . |
| 19 | Education made up 22.5 per cent of development aid in 1985 and 17.5 per cent in 1987 . |
| 20 | Of this , undamaged bottles and containers make up 200,000 tonnes . |
| 21 | Reflecting trends across Europe , casualwear makes up 70 per cent of sales in the shop , but casual does not mean sloppy . |
| 22 | Iron and steel make up one quarter of Luxembourg 's national income . |
| 23 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 24 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 25 | This is particularly apparent in Central America , where it is estimated that seasonal migrants make up 70 per cent of the labour force employed in agriculture . |
| 26 | Sea trade made up 95 per cent of international trade relations in 1989 , with tankers shipping 1,730 million tonnes , or 6.9 per cent more than 1988 , and dry cargo at 2,210 million tonnes , up 4.4 per cent . |
| 27 | In an emergency , the Volunteer Reserve Forces make up one third of Britain 's defence strength . |
| 28 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 29 | In non-government schools ( that is , mainly district council schools ) in 1987 , untrained teachers made up 50 per cent of the total at primary level and 45 per cent at secondary level ; for government schools the figures were much lower — 7 and 19 per cent respectively . |
| 30 | Conservative Party and business interests make up 46 per cent of the 90 members , 19 per cent nominated either by themselves or the boards . |