Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone parents now account for 14% of families with dependent children ( it was 8% in 1971 ) . |
| 2 | These include £1.2 billion of property surpluses plus £460m of surpluses on investment — reduced by £144m because of the fall in value of its Midland shares — plus a previously secret £1.1 billion . |
| 3 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 4 | ‘ At least 60pc of patients for tattoo removal are local women and most are respectable ladies in their 40s , ’ he said . |
| 5 | If nursing already recruits 25% of leavers with between 5 " O " levels and 2 A levels , this is easier said than done , particularly when one considers that other employment agencies are also preparing to compete more aggressively to obtain their share from the pool . |
| 6 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 7 | The Figure shows that 25% of patients with ulcerative colitis exhibited low grade dysplasia on at least occasion by 17 years after diagnosis of ulcerative colitis , 50% by 25 years , and 75% by 38 years . |
| 8 | Colon cancer was found in 25% of patients with high grade dysplasia but another 25% had a negative colectomy specimen or colonoscopy on follow up . |
| 9 | SIR — Clinically evident cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) retinitis affects up to 25% of patients with AIDS , and is the commonest cause of vision loss in these patients . |
| 10 | I would estimate that my enjoyment of a day is spoilt on about 25% of occasions by various comments and objections that are made . |
| 11 | Nicholas Young laid over £10m-worth of bets in five years — at least a third of it with other people 's money . |
| 12 | He said ambulances reached well over 95pc of calls within 19 minutes the Government standard . |
| 13 | He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting . |
| 14 | Coincidentally the results of another recently released study , commissioned by several local authorities , Passenger Transport Executives and the National Park Authority , shows that 65% of journeys between Sheffield and Manchester are made by rail rather than road . |
| 15 | One packet of crisps or 1 oz. of nuts on six days in the week . |
| 16 | One packet of crisps or 1 oz. of nuts on five days in the week . |
| 17 | One packet of crisps or 1 oz. of nuts on four days in the week . |
| 18 | One packet of crisps or 1 oz. of nuts on three days in the week . |
| 19 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 20 | Constipation represents a common problem in children , accounting for 3% of visits to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as to a large general paediatric clinic in Boston , but little is known about longterm outcome in young children . |
| 21 | As well as allowing us to buy priority tickets and get away tickets , you get a quite nice yearbook ( 3.5 quids worth ) , 10% of goods from the shop and discounts from home games . |
| 22 | Another paper describing the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation is Narin 1987 , but this restricts itself to publication counts and citations , deriving a new indicator , the Top Decile Performance , which is that percent of an Institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 23 | It is defined as the percent of an institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 24 | Estimates suggest that in the European Community as a whole , at least 10% of families with children are lone parent families ( Roll , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | About 10% of searches of Okapi contain at least one dubious spelling . |
| 26 | The results of our complex segregation analysis suggest that a major dominant gene is present in about 10% of patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 27 | In published reports , biliary tract obstruction is the primary indication for surgery in about 10% of patients with CP . |
| 28 | They develop in about 10% of patients with acute alcoholic pancreatitis . |
| 29 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 30 | The frequency of agents found in our patients was similar to those reported in earlier studies from Western Europe and the USA , except for cryptosporidium which was detected in 5% of our patients , ina bout 10% of patients in the USA , but in more than 20% of patients in Great Britain and France . |