Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is considerable species variation in the response of the stomach to alcohol and so animal studies will be cited only where data from humans are inadequate . |
| 2 | People with less advanced HIV-related illness may tolerate zidovudine better than people with AIDS , so treatment should be started earlier rather than later . |
| 3 | Just the fact that this can be achieved at less than £10,000 for a complete system is rather likely to upset anyone who has invested hundreds of thousands in ‘ Third Wave ’ systems and discovers that , for a tenth the cost they could actually achieve rather more . |
| 4 | Three-quarters of local households had an income of less than £10,000 in 1987 . |
| 5 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 6 | Nuttall and Gipps ( 1982 ) estimate that the direct cost of the APU was £800,000 per year , which crudely would mean less than £30 per school . |
| 7 | By comparison , more than three in five of the older working-class women had an income of less than £30 per week and none had over £60 ( Taylor and Ford , 1983 , p. 192 ) . |
| 8 | In fact i has to be less than 90° for the simple reason that the supergiant does not eclipse the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 at any part of the orbit ; if τ were 90° the orbits would be seen edge-on and eclipsing would be unavoidable . |
| 9 | Often cancers of these organs are not discovered until it is too late to cure them : less than 8% of lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis [ 2 ] . |
| 10 | Volume pricing is less than $50 per workstation . |
| 11 | less than 75% of the fat in standard equivalent food — some products have only half the fat . |
| 12 | the shares , together with any shares already held by the person acquiring them carry not less than 75% of the votes ; and |
| 13 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 14 | Less than £5 per tab ( often half this price ) |
| 15 | These are usually available or can be bought for less than £5 from opticians . |
| 16 | The Pru says that Britain is becoming a nation of spendthrifts with less than £5 in every £100 of disposable income being saved last year -the lowest level for 30 years — and is encouraging people to save the extra cash . |
| 17 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 18 | With upwards of four-fifths of people here having less than 30s. in personal property , nobody at all was worth as much as 40s. in one township out of every three , especially upland ones like Arncliff , Hellifield and Kettlewell , though these were not the only ones . |
| 19 | Cole with Utting ( 1962 , Chapter 5 ) estimated that 76 per cent of single and widowed women over pensionable age in Britain in 1959 were living in poverty ( defined as less than £3.50 per week ) . |
| 20 | There was evidence that other businesses in the same line as the plaintiffs charged a much lower fee — in most cases less than £3.50 per transparency per week . |
| 21 | But the results show in the statistics : more than $1 billion invested in Hungary last year , less than $100m in Poland . |
| 22 | According to John Collier , the chair of Nuclear Electric , the new station would capitalize on Sizewell B ( due to start operating in 1994 ) and could produce electricity at less than 3p per unit , compared to just over 4p for Sizewell B and between 6p and 8p for the older stations . |
| 23 | Fundamental science was a casualty of the ‘ period of stagnation ’ — it got less than 9% of Soviet spending on science in 1988 . |
| 24 | Fission-track age determinations on apatites from undeformed granodiorite indicate that the South Mountains MCC has resided at temperatures of less than 100°C since 17Myr ( termination of major deformation ) . |
| 25 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 26 | I would be surprised if the LTA lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event |
| 27 | After spending less than £500,000 above the line in 1991 , the company plans a £3.5m spend behind the new product in TV and press ads through Ogilvy & Mather . |
| 28 | Many companies refuse to invest less than £500,000 in any one company , partly because the smaller companies are regarded as higher risk . |
| 29 | I understand that the Government are spending somewhat less than £500,000 in that area . |
| 30 | Priced at around $3,500 — expensive , but still less than 5% of the cost of a new Mercedes Benz sports car — it is more likely to be seen in Beverly Hills than in Baltimore . |