Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Fig. 2.5 a widely spaced pair of radio-telescopes are shown receiving signals from the same source . |
| 2 | ALASTAIR GRAHAM , headmaster of Mill Hill School , north London , says parents who have paid fees should not be above gently reminding offspring of the financial sacrifices made on their behalf in the run-up to exams . |
| 3 | Certificates were awarded to 63 girls who all passed 93pc of them passed with either a merit or distinction . |
| 4 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 5 | The aim is not only to increase sales of these products , but also to encourage customers to buy other goods at the same time . |
| 6 | They only occupy 2% of the total agricultural area however , and a large number of them are part-time or retirement farms and constitute no great economic problem whilst many , particularly in southern France , are quite intensive and may provide reasonable family incomes . |
| 7 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 8 | It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium . |
| 9 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 10 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 11 | The Packard Bell Elite 1000 comes with plenty of bundled software and sound support , but it only has 2Mb of RAM |
| 12 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 13 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 14 | She only received £6,000 of the loan . |
| 15 | But the Government clause which says Caldaire can only keep 35pc of any purchase price above £1.3m makes a move virtually impossible . |
| 16 | Over-production led to the infamous butter mountains and ultimately set aside , which means that arable farmers here can only work 85% of their land . |
| 17 | The sack should be in certain Karrimor agents ' shops by now , priced £350 , but at present it will only fit people of average size or bigger — those who take , say , size 42–47 boots . |
| 18 | Lodges , clothing and large amounts of flour were lost to the soldiers , and war correspondent Tom Sutherland reported his discovery of ‘ a much worn pair of small moccasins and an absurd little rag doll under a tree ’ . |
| 19 | It was soon overtaken by the profounder and better known works of Bonaventure , Albertus Magnus , and Aquinas . |
| 20 | The parents charter does not merely inform people of the rights that they already have and which are approved by Parliament , but contains a list of proposals on the privatisation of the inspectorate . |
| 21 | D&B 's European operation only reached 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m . |
| 22 | The link-up will also boost income for the station which has 16pc of the ITV audience but only collects 12pc of the revenue . |
| 23 | He only liked people of his own generation . |
| 24 | These assignments together carry 40% of the marks for the area of study . |
| 25 | There is no good reason why in these circumstances 100% of the seats should not be distributed among parties ( and any serious independent candidates ) which have together won 95% of the votes . |
| 26 | As the wealth of software grew so did sales of the computer , and distributors were established in countries throughout the world . |
| 27 | Kuwait and Iraq together contain 29% of the Gulf 's oil reserves and , up to 1990 , were producing 27% of the Gulf 's total output . |
| 28 | It therefore does not give any help even in the areas , such as sex and hunger , where we most obviously need means of describing the relations between culture and the biological . |
| 29 | This insurance arrangement is very rarely used by practitioners , but readers should know that it does exist , and might provide some help to a buyer who is basically raising 100% of the price from the mortgage company . |
| 30 | 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 . |