Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of being at home is that you will be less likely to have a caesarian section , which is seen as a last resort while in hospitals around 12pc of all pregnancies will end in an operation . |
| 2 | Probably 14% of all Brazilians are openly associated with spiritism and more than 60% dabble in some form of spiritism . |
| 3 | However , the number of boarded-out children increased steadily , from 2,799 in 1885 to 11,596 in 1914 ( 14% of all children in care ) . |
| 4 | There were many benefits , from a variety of sources , and only 14% of part-time farmers interviewed said they received none . |
| 5 | Whatever its precise definition , the unoccupied group accounted for 6% of all children ( 61445 ) — more than in either social class I or V — yet 14% of observed deaths ( 1690 ) occurred in this group . |
| 6 | IT IS something of a public statement of Carter 's record company 's faith that they are prepared to spend £20,000 of unrecoupable readies on a major aerodynamic lig for the British press ( faith that is vindicated , one could argue , by the band 's confirmed Biggest Ever Hit ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ — Number Eight last week and rising ) . |
| 7 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 8 | For the fry of large cichlids the food need not be this fine and one method to produce a powder fine enough is described below . |
| 9 | How then does Boeing manage to make aircraft of all shapes and sizes ? |
| 10 | Figure 3 shows a woolly , but definite , correlation between the number of aircraft of all types offered by a training centre and the rates quoted for dual instruction . |
| 11 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition , said that the companies would have acquired a 50 per cent share of the world market for commuter aircraft of 20-70 seats and 67 per cent of the EC market . |
| 12 | Among mothers with dependent children , 56% of married women were in full or part-time work in 1986/88 compared with 39% of lone mothers . |
| 13 | It has been suggested by Bruer in his study of medical education literature that , in the case of published papers , 56% of those papers which were highly rated were also highly cited , and that 60% of the highly cited papers were in the highly rated class . |
| 14 | They accounted for 80% of the prenatal diagnoses in mothers under 35 and 25% of such diagnoses in older women , for whom maternal age is still the most common indication although in these the use of serum screening is increasing . |
| 15 | Although , overall , 6% of monographs were defective , monographs in original ( unrepaired ) leather bindings showed an above-average need for repair , with 25% of such items being recorded as defective . |
| 16 | In rats given platelet activating factor , both oedema and leucocyte infiltration were less pronounced and the vacuolisation was observed in less than 25% of acinar cells ( Table II ) . |
| 17 | Sea spray may contain up to 25% of solid materials , organic and inorganic , and contributes significant amounts of nitrate and organic debris to coastal soils . |
| 18 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 19 | Sales of Unix-based systems are expected to reach 25% of total systems expenditure in Australia by 1994 . |
| 20 | Nowadays it is much less common and only 25% of new cases are found in children , ie the onset of the disease has been greatly delayed . |
| 21 | 75% of juniors and 25% of senior schoolchildren are forbidden by their parents to ride their bikes on the road ; |
| 22 | The poverty trap has been brought about by the interaction of the paying of tax and the loss of means-tested assistance on each £1 of additional earnings . |
| 23 | ‘ For a full-time working family paying income tax and national insurance contributions , and receiving income-related benefits , an extra £1 of gross earnings can lead to an increase in income tax of 25p , a 9p increase in national insurance contributions , a 46p reduction in family credit , and a 17p reduction in Housing Benefit — a total of 97p ’ ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 24 | Some authors have described an incidence of chronic atrophic gastritis in more than 65% of all cases of Sjögren 's syndrome . |
| 25 | In practice , 65% of approved candidates are graduates . |
| 26 | After £21m of exceptional provisions , mostly against housing developments , a pre-tax profit of £6.8m in 1990 was replaced with a £16.7m loss last year . |
| 27 | 3 oz. plain flour ; 3 oz. unsalted butter ; 1 ½ oz. of caster sugar ; s oz. of ground almonds ; ½ to 1 oz. of rice flour or cornflour . |
| 28 | In patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome associated with MEN 1 , all cell densities were above the highest control value ; 53% of these patients had diffuse hyperplasia and 47% linear hperplasia . |
| 29 | This implies that at least 53% of lone mothers would be classified as unoccupied ; they would have been regarded as economically inactive at the census , and at death registration the instructions to registrars would preclude the recording of any occupational information . |
| 30 | ( 5 ) Haskey found , for 1987–9 , that 53% of lone mothers with at least one child under the age of 16 were economically inactive . |