Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] [noun] " 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 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 8 | if you have boarders , £35 of each boarder 's payments |
| 9 | You will probably be responsible for the first £35 of each claim in respect of baggage , money , medical expenses and cancellation and curtailment ( except when a claim is made for the initial holiday deposit ) . |
| 10 | Cod of 14 lb and 11 lb at Anchorsholme over low water . |
| 11 | Cards containing up to 20Mb of Flash RAM are available , but their price is likely to top £1,000 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 14 | In larger open pools , almost any fish can be encountered , with the fry of larger fish like Grey Mullet and Bass to be found in Sussex pools . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Research has demonstrated that growth in rats is retarded when their blood contains 0–3 ppm of ionic fluoride and that ‘ serious ’ toxic effects develop when concentrations in the blood reach 1 ppm ( Fluorides and Human Health , WHO , Geneva , 1970 ) . |
| 17 | Model predictions of regional changes in temperature and moisture in a future world with the equivalent of 560–600 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide have to be treated with much caution . |
| 18 | During 23rd. the remaining aircraft of 213 Squadron set off to complete their journey to the African mainland . |
| 19 | The main force of level bombers passed over to 6 8,000 feet virtually unchallenged , their bombs crashing down on Luqa where six Wellingtons were burnt out ( R1247 , 1381 , 1382 , 1383 , 1384 of 148 Squadron , plus the sole remaining aircraft of 70 Squadron detachment , T2816 ) and seven more badly damaged , as were several Marylands . |
| 20 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 21 | How then does Boeing manage to make aircraft of all shapes and sizes ? |
| 22 | This wooden aeroplane was one of the most successful aircraft of all time , and 7,781 of them were built . |
| 23 | Charles Lindberg 's Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis is placed in the history books as one of the great aircraft of all time , and quite rightly so . |
| 24 | Lavishly illustrated , especially in the restoration chapters , this book is a worthy tribute to one of the classic transport aircraft of all time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | David Stirling 's final plan was for his force to embark in five Bristol Bombay aircraft of 216 Squadron on the night of 16 November and drop near their targets . |
| 27 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that the navy will now need a new aircraft of some sort to fill the gap until a brand-new attack machine , so far called only the AX , can be produced , the outlook for Grumman is bleak . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command , each aircraft delivering a bombload that would have needed four aircraft of 1940 vintage to have lifted it . |