Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [prep] [noun pl] " 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 | When we started , only 17pc of pubs were selling real ale , now that figure is 64pc . |
| 6 | The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs . |
| 7 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Only 63% of marriages were between a bachelor and spinster in 1989 , compared with 79% in 1971 . |
| 11 | Wyatt et al calculated that a single anterior biopsy detected only 63% of patients with gastric metaplasia proved by multipoe biopsy . |
| 12 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 13 | Severums ( above ) are popular on the problem pages but the Oscar ( right ) brings in 10% of queries . |
| 14 | Despite the name , the Tattershall Park Country Club is n't a pricey place — admission is only £1 for adults and 50p for children . |
| 15 | Mr Byers wants to know : Why did VSEL pay only £1 for Lairds ? |
| 16 | Therefore , in assessing product stability , only data on samples stored in inert , highly protective packs , need , or should be , taken into account . |
| 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 | Mobility studies focus almost exclusively on males , so data on changes are partial and partly misleading . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Last year , opinion polls found only 10% of Ukrainians wanting their country to be nuclear-armed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only 10% of children born with spina bifida are brain damaged . |
| 28 | In theory it would be possible to significantly reduce the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , remembering that women aged 38 years or over account for only 3% of births , but 23% of Down 's births . |
| 29 | A review of the training content of junior doctors ' work is long overdue : a recent survey found that only 3% of juniors ' working time was spent on training . |
| 30 | He chose the city of Selma , Alabama , to dramatize the issue — a city where the blacks outnumbered whites , but where only 3% of blacks were registered voters against 97% of the white inhabitants . |