Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 2 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this only works in MS-DOS 3.3 and later . |
| 4 | Few enough people at the moment know which council does what . |
| 5 | 1 pair of lined blue/green brocade curtains ( each approximately 9′ x 9′ ) |
| 6 | In order to keep the diagram simple only data for the most central twenty boys are included . |
| 7 | In 1979 only 3% of unmarried women lived with their boyfriend . |
| 8 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 9 | At pH 7.0 about 10% of total radioactivity of [ I ] bFGF was bound to sucralfate , whereas at pH 2.0 the binding increased to about 90% ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 10 | The order to mobilise was received at Stony Stratford at 6 pm on 5 August 1914 , and by 10 pm 60% of the Mounted Field Ambulance had reported to their Headquarters at the Cock Hotel . |
| 11 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 12 | Graseby Plc has reported net profits for the year to December 31 down 81% at £844,000 , after £1.5m profits from the sale of investment properties , £2.2m losses from the disposal of discontinued operations , £3.6m losses from goodwill write-downs this time and £1.7m restructuring charges and £1.6m losses from the disposal of discontinued operations last time , on turnover that fell 5.9% to £102.6m . |
| 13 | In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands . |
| 14 | April 1990 saw the worst ever series of prison riots , including a 25-day riot and siege at Strangeways Prison , Manchester . |
| 15 | Telemetrix Plc has turned in net profits for the year to December 31 up 19% at £4.4m , after £940,000 restructuring charges this time and £1.5m last time , on turnover that rose 17.3% to £98.2m . |
| 16 | Nintendo Co Ltd has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 2% to the equivalent of $750.9m on turnover that climbed 13% to $5,471m . |
| 17 | Acorn Computer Group Plc has reported net — and pre-tax — profits for the year to December 31 up 378% at £1.3m on turnover that rose 17.6% at £48.2m . |
| 18 | Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 13% at the equivalent of $832.2m on turnover that rose 18% to $2,801m . |
| 19 | In 1800 , 90% of Americans lived in rural communities ; but with the growth of industry , especially in the second half of the century , towns and cities began to spread , and by 1920 over 50% of the population lived in them . |
| 20 | Unix boxes have sold well with DRS 6000 sales up 74% and DRS 3000 up 59% in 1992 and with new business successes in areas like Egypt and Australia . |
| 21 | In 1953–54 nearly 40% of all male students were classified as manual workers ; men as a whole made up 45% of the total number of students . |
| 22 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 23 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 24 | The strongest growth in turnover came from Druck Holdings , up 60% at £27m ; Microvitec up 57% to £37m ; Oceonics Group , up 42% at £29m ; Molynx , up 41% at £22m ; and Densitron International up 39% at £36m. — Lynn Stratton |
| 25 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
| 26 | Now this is an appalling situation , er th the B C C I 's books were certified by the auditors as a true and fair record from December nineteenth er December thirty first nineteen er eighty seven forward a and that meant that people had confidence in B C C I , here we 're told that the auditors are giving it er a certificate of a a true and fair record er encouraging therefore people to in t to invest and yet prior to nineteen eighty nine Price Waterhouse knew of gross irregularities er in B C C I 's handling of loads , particularly the load to C C A H which was the holding company for First American er bank shares . |
| 27 | Cut out nine squares , each about 10cm x 10cm , from the tissue paper . |
| 28 | Bus stations at Wakefield and Castleford are each about 1km from the navigation . |
| 29 | The price per ounce dipped below $360 in the summer , but has recently climbed above $400 and last night was nudging $410 . |
| 30 | e.g. " As late as 1911 only 59% of Britain 's adult male population ( some eight million out of a total nearing forty one million ) had the vote , and there were seven different types of franchise , of which the two major ones related to ownership or occupation of land , or of any house defined as a separate dwelling . " |