Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In more than 80% of cases the site of bleeding is found within 6 cm of the gastro-oesophageal junction , particularly along the lesser curvature .
2 This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 .
3 Our first audit showed that in 20% of referrals the referrer had given inadequate information ; the second showed that in only 7% was information inadequate .
4 He said it was inevitable that in 5pc of instances the response times may be longer .
5 He added : ‘ While I appreciate that in some 5pc of cases the response time is outside this target , 36 minutes is unacceptable in Barnard Castle . ’
6 ‘ While I appreciate that in some 5pc of cases the response time is outside this target , I do feel that a 36-minute or more response time is unacceptable in Barnard Castle town centre on market day . ’
7 In 53 percent of cases the ambulance reached the patient within eight minutes .
8 In 95 percent of cases the ambulance reached the patient within 14 minutes .
9 In uncontrolled studies , the use of heater probe in active bleeding ulcers or in ulcers with stigmata of recent haemorrhage , achieves haemostasis in 75 to 100% of cases , and in 69 to 86% of patients the control of bleeding is definitive .
10 In around 75% of cases the Commissioner 's name is added to the title of the proceedings .
11 Table 6.4 shows that on about 75% of occasions the state of the atmosphere ( foggy or clear ) remained the same from one day to the next , and a change from one state to another occurred on about 25% of occasions .
12 In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes .
13 Its objects are to unite the deaf and dumb and all interested in them , advance and protect their interests , elevate their social status , secure better and higher education for them , afford to anyone information as to their condition , education , etc. , establish missions in places where none exist , and last of all to assist by means of pensions the most deserving aged and infirm deaf and dumb , and so prevent them , in many instances , from drifting into the workhouse .
14 The full implementation of the substance and spirit of the Wagner Committee 's proposals might go some way towards giving people in institutions a greater say .
15 They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway .
16 Last night Derrick Fullick , leader of ASLEF rail union , said : ‘ The more British Rail continue to cut staff at stations the more we will get incidents like this . ’
17 Her gimmick was that she wore a different pair of glasses every day and somehow they all seemed to suit her .
18 ( ii ) Whilst being a very agreeable proof of the universal existence of gcds the above proof is not very helpful in determining ( a , b ) for any particular pair of integers a and b .
19 Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before .
20 Dancing night after night in a pair of shoes a size too small regularly reminded her of Jennie 's animosity .
21 While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds .
22 First a pair of geodesics a and b are drawn through a point in the space .
23 For each pair of sentences the ‘ incorrect ’ picture contains either a grammatical distractor ( e.g. ‘ He is sitting in the tree ’ vs .
24 Thus , the following pair of sentences The man was eager to please and The man was easy to please are alike in their surface structure but are different in their deep structure .
25 Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies .
26 ‘ And I expect she wears a new pair of knickers every day , ’ little Kitty whispered in my ear .
27 But the wheel base continued to increase and , to negotiate curves , it was necessary to allow the centre pair of wheels a certain amount of side play .
28 With a pair of scissors the Inlay Operator cuts out a small piece of black card which he places on his white desktop .
29 I mean , when you go to give blood they use a , a pair of gloves every time .
30 Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 .
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