Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Austria the Germans made up 36.8 per cent of the population . |
| 2 | Along with orders to France and Scandinavia , exports make up 75 per cent of ANTA 's business . |
| 3 | Arthropods make up three-quarters of all known present day animal species . |
| 4 | Company cars make up 60 per cent of the sales . |
| 5 | The basic theoretical problem had been to show how two or more autonomous and contradictory totalizations make up one dialectical intelligibility : to do this he needed to totalize the classes in struggle , and to discover the synthetic unity of a conflictual society . |
| 6 | Tamils made up twenty-two per cent of Colombo residents , Moors nineteen per cent , and Burghers eight per cent . |
| 7 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 8 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 9 | Bottles make up 51 per cent of the total , all but three being from Kent , the important exceptions being from the seventh-century rich graves of Asthall ( Oxfordshire ) and Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) . |
| 10 | Black and other ethnic communities make up 47 per cent of Newham 's 220,000 population . |
| 11 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 12 | For the same period in Britain these workers made up 20 per cent of the workforce . |
| 13 | Vamplew suggests shareholding was rather more democratically distributed in Scotland with skilled manual workers making up 19.1 per cent of shareholders in twenty-three clubs up to 1916 . |
| 14 | Pedestrians make up one third of road user deaths , the largest single category . |
| 15 | Not all Unionist MPs ever supported the coalition , but almost all of them took the Whip at some time ; the Unionists made up three-quarters of the government side of the House . |
| 16 | Kosovo , where Albanians made up 90 per cent of the province 's population of 2,000,000 , remained a thorny issue . |
| 17 | Of this , undamaged bottles and containers make up 200,000 tonnes . |
| 18 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 19 | This is particularly apparent in Central America , where it is estimated that seasonal migrants make up 70 per cent of the labour force employed in agriculture . |
| 20 | In an emergency , the Volunteer Reserve Forces make up one third of Britain 's defence strength . |
| 21 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | In non-government schools ( that is , mainly district council schools ) in 1987 , untrained teachers made up 50 per cent of the total at primary level and 45 per cent at secondary level ; for government schools the figures were much lower — 7 and 19 per cent respectively . |
| 23 | Conservative Party and business interests make up 46 per cent of the 90 members , 19 per cent nominated either by themselves or the boards . |
| 24 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |
| 25 | The Amazonian rainforests make up one third of all rainforests and are vitally important in terms of biological diversity . |
| 26 | The number of Indians had dropped from 51 per cent to 46.4 per cent of the population , while Melanesians made up 48.4 per cent with other races making up the remainder . |
| 27 | The colonial education system remained virtually intact after nominal independence in 1960 : two-thirds of university students studied law or the liberal arts in a country where peasants make up 90 per cent of the population and agriculture is the mainstay of the economy . |
| 28 | This was particularly so with the education professions and with low skilled industrial jobs where women made up 57 per cent and 23 per cent respectively of the total workforce but 79 per cent and 32 per cent respectively of the temporary workforce . |
| 29 | The relatively small number of women studying on IT Advanced Courses was confirmed again by this study : women made up fourteen per cent of the students returning questionnaires . |
| 30 | Women make up 80 per cent of the agricultural labour force and produce 60 per cent of the nation 's food . |