Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] of [noun] " 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 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 4 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 5 | A similar finding has been reported using simultaneous gamma scintigraphy , oesophageal pH monitoring , and manometry in which only 23% of reflux events were detected by both methods . |
| 6 | Perhaps 80% of subject search sessions are short and successful , the searcher being satisfied by one or two apparently relevant items in the first dozen or so . |
| 7 | When we started , only 17pc of pubs were selling real ale , now that figure is 64pc . |
| 8 | The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs . |
| 9 | In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 12 | Duodenal H pylori was found in only 50% of patients taking NSAIDs with active duodenitis , and 61% of their counterparts not taking NSAIDs ; all cases of duodenal H pylori coexisted with gastric metaplasia . |
| 13 | Only 63% of marriages were between a bachelor and spinster in 1989 , compared with 79% in 1971 . |
| 14 | Wyatt et al calculated that a single anterior biopsy detected only 63% of patients with gastric metaplasia proved by multipoe biopsy . |
| 15 | Worse , only 65% of Japan 's roads are paved , compared with almost all of Britain 's and Germany 's . |
| 16 | Severums ( above ) are popular on the problem pages but the Oscar ( right ) brings in 10% of queries . |
| 17 | In the previous year only 53% of buyouts came from corporate restructuring . |
| 18 | Admittedly , only 25% of adults survive the most common form of adult leukaemia , acute myeloid , but it is a great improvement on 30 years ago , when nearly every sufferer died . |
| 19 | Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence . |
| 20 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 21 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 22 | True , drugs are only 40pc of Zeneca , but they are the fast growth 40pc . |
| 23 | The Liberal Democrats will be depressed to see that only 40pc of Alliance voters in 1987 are now ready to vote for Peter Bergg . |
| 24 | In the United Kingdom , however , only 10% of tumours are early gastric cancers , so potential exists for changing the natural history of the disease if populations suitable for screening can be identified . |
| 25 | Last year , opinion polls found only 10% of Ukrainians wanting their country to be nuclear-armed . |
| 26 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 27 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 28 | ISAM-XA , an X/Open-compliant resource manager for those wishing to access transaction processing monitors from data held in indexed sequential file systems — despite all the noise , relational still accounts for only 10% of data — is held to be the brightest hope for the future . |
| 29 | In 1974 , in seven randomly sampled London practices , Heller and Rose found blood pressure recorded in only 10% of men and 18% of women aged 20–39 . |
| 30 | This is in contrast with Moorglen et al , who reported the presence of glutathione S-transferase π in 100% of samples , and glutathione S-transferase α in only 10% of tumour samples , by immunohistochemistry with an immunoperoxidase staining method . |