Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have laboured long at programmed learning sequences , even if less wholeheartedly multi-media in scope , will agree that such units take time to prepare . |
| 2 | When I went into erm the annexe the walls , erm like i in Albans , honestly the walls are just covered in photos , you know , and they 're not so much people outside school but people in school , you know , there 's all the little , there are all the kind of groups , people and couples and it 's really sweet . |
| 3 | Indeed , only about 4% of the solar radiation available at the top of the Cytherean atmosphere reaches the surface . |
| 4 | The Liberal Party obtained only about 9% of the voters ' support , and Common Wealth merely 1% or 2% . |
| 5 | It was found that while the annual revenue was about $400,000 , there was only about $1,000 in the account ; John Piper had received $20,000 as his percentage and $8,000 as his salary , and the remainder had been frittered away by lax and costly administration . |
| 6 | With turnover of £117m last year , the company accounted for only about 5% of Thorn EMI sales , but Data Sciences is number two in the UK computer services league . |
| 7 | When cells were acutely infected with the bcl-2 -expressing retrovirus , only about 5% of the cells seemed to be successfully transfected , as judged by staining with the anti-Bcl-2 antibody ; after treatment with staurosporine , the small number of cells that survived were all intensely stained by the antibody ( not shown ) . |
| 8 | Preliminary counts suggested that only about 5% of the L1 posiutive cells in the lamina propria were neutrophils , a finding supported by staining for chloroactate esterase in the same sections . |
| 9 | Second , only about 50% of the thymocytes were double positive , although there was substantial individual variation ( 15–80% ) . |
| 10 | In contrast , in Britain only about 11% of the population has private insurance and coverage is restricted to a limited range of medical services . |
| 11 | It was very much part of the evidence that the banks ( although Union Discount 's expert witness claimed that they were not a bank ) continued to discount bills presented by Berg , despite the fact that Berg 's 1983 accounts were late and that the only accounts of record [ 1982 ] showed net assets of only about £250,000 against potential exposures measuring many millions . |
| 12 | If it has a rounded top , projecting only about 25mm above the gravel , it will not harm the tyres . |
| 13 | With only about 20% of the city 's beds , the Health and Hospitals Corporation in the early 1980s provided over half of all organised outpatient visits and 40% of all emergency care in the city . |
| 14 | This is designed to test the feasibility of extending fundholding to cover all services and not just the limited range of services at present included — which represents only about 20% of services purchased from providers . |
| 15 | However , the fact that HMSO now publishes only about 20% of official publications has seriously undermined the usefulness of the Ford list . |
| 16 | The data from the CFTC ( 1991 ) indicates that in the USA only about 1% of the open positions in index futures are spreads , while the corresponding figure for the FT-SE 100 is probably lower . |
| 17 | Thus , most of the lunar surface is extremely old : probably only about 1% of the surface is younger than 3000 Ma , whereas less than 1% of the Earth 's surface is older than this . |
| 18 | Under the new system Elizabeth and William would have had to pay a contribution of more than £1,000 even though they earn only about £7,200 between them . |
| 19 | If we did not require that dividend , which is spent on hospitals , schools and much else , we would be able to cut only about 1p off the 24p cost of a first-class stamp . |
| 20 | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that consumers pay only about 15% of the world price , due to huge government subsidies , the reduction of which would be politically delicate . |
| 21 | About 20% of care is consistently shown to be inappropriate and only about 15% of medical interventions are based on solid scientific evidence . |
| 22 | Research in Southwark , however , has suggested that only about 15% of recent referrals to residential care were inappropriate . |
| 23 | Lionesses often hunt alone , but only about 15% of these hunts are successful . |
| 24 | In fact , only about 15% of 14 year-olds do . |
| 25 | The number of viable acini isolated in pancreatitis induced by caerulein was only about 30% of that obtained from the intact pancreas . |
| 26 | For instance , there is good evidence that in Ghana in the 1960s only about 22% of births and 17% of deaths were being registered . |
| 27 | In these TCR -β transgenic scid mice the number of double-positive cells reaches only about 2% of wild-type level and the total number of thymocytes is about 3% of wild-type . |
| 28 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 29 | The result is that , of the 7–10 litres entering the gut , only about 100ml of water leave the healthy gut daily in the faeces . |
| 30 | GEC 's HC depreciation has been only about 40% of reported HC profit after tax : and with a shorter average plant life , the CPP amount is only 50% higher . |