Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law does not , however , regard such societies ( unless formally incorporated ) as having any corporate personality ; it sees only individuals , owning property , it may be , in common , with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract , or rather series of contracts , to be found in the society 's rules ; for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied . |
| 2 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 3 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 4 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 5 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 8 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 9 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 10 | While white society engulfed the Christian Nez Perce , the 200 or so people of Joseph 's Wellamotkin band remained aloof in the Wallowa valley . |
| 11 | It was also agreed that the 100 or so people from each country involved in the exchange should be accompanied by 70 journalists and a 70-member art troupe from each side . |
| 12 | There may be a million or so people in the land who have the capacity to turn their hands to anything that 's going without feeling frustrated , or rebellious , or losing self-respect . |
| 13 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 14 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 15 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 16 | Andersen has a net book value of $14m , and the listing is expected to raise at least $25m , or approximately £17m at current exchange rates . |
| 17 | Or Just £10 Per Month |
| 18 | I 'm sure that he is , the people who 've come from there , quite clearly recovering alcoholics or mental hospital patients , or possibly people from prison , and I 've known enough people in my time to know this . |
| 19 | The herb subformation involves one or both species of flowering plants , usually in combination with mosses . |
| 20 | BellSouth Corp , Atlanta warns that first quarter profits will be reduced by about $20m to $25m or about $0.05 per share because of costs associated with the severe winter weather that scoured the south : among the extraordinary costs are labour and material costs to maintain and restore telephone service . |
| 21 | She paid $60,000 for it in 1952 — or about $320,000 in today 's money . |
| 22 | A new sole will cost from £7–£15 , depending on the material used , or about £4 for only a heel replacement . |
| 23 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 24 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 25 | On the basis of a building purchase price of £200,000 , the total cost of the project would be £1 million , or about £16,000 per flat . |
| 26 | Total international bank lending from London exceeded $1,300 billion in 1991 , or about 18% of total international bank lending . |
| 27 | By 1990-91 , the cost of collection had increased by 83.5 per cent and amounted to £43,558 million , or about £12 of the community charge payable by adults . |
| 28 | In that year the electricity bill for one of the winter quarters was just over £25 but before today 's Society Stewards become too wistful they should also reflect on the fact that the average Sunday offering then through the envelope system was below £17 , or about 7p for each subscriber . |
| 29 | There are 5,300 in the UK covering about 16,270 square kilometres — or about 7% of the land . |
| 30 | From then until harvest the size of the flattened areas steadily increases until it totals well over 1ha ( 2.5 acres ) , or about 3% of the wheat area . |