Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the world 's fastest economic growth rates ( real GNP rose by 12.8% last year , an annual 14% in 1993 's first quarter ) has come accelerating inflation . |
| 2 | Possibly the latter had supported Queen Emma in plans that one of her sons , rather any of the offspring of Æthelred 's first consort , should succeed him . |
| 3 | The extent of British defence cuts is still anyone 's guess , even in Whitehall ; but the Defence Manufacturers ' Association reckons real annual spending will fall to about 75% of 1990 's figure within five years . |
| 4 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 5 | It is the right of slaves to be free , their right not to be treated as another 's property , their right not to be used as a mere means to another 's end — it is these basic moral rights that a system of chattel slavery systematically violates , not the principle that we must count equal interests equally . |
| 6 | There were sheaves of yellowed printout and mislaid documentation ; tubes of Shigenaga beer empty and full ; an assortment of abused rayons and grey underwear ; a grimy pair of zero-g 's ; a squashed box with two organic tampons in it ; a circuit tester ; an inertial screwdriver ; a bag of ageing fruitdrops ; and a broken-backed paperback book , its pages creased , its cover fused and inert . |
| 7 | In 1980 60% of Digital 's systems went through this stage . |