Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many benefits , from a variety of sources , and only 14% of part-time farmers interviewed said they received none . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sales of Unix-based systems are expected to reach 25% of total systems expenditure in Australia by 1994 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 75% of juniors and 25% of senior schoolchildren are forbidden by their parents to ride their bikes on the road ; |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 15 | In practice , 65% of approved candidates are graduates . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) Haskey found , for 1987–9 , that 53% of lone mothers with at least one child under the age of 16 were economically inactive . |
| 20 | Patients with cancer are seen sooner in most pain clinics ( median 25 days in clinics in teaching hospitals and just 10 days in clinics in district general hospitals ) , but these patients make up less than 3% of new referrals to pain clinics ( patients with cancer are usually treated outwith outpatient clinics ) . |
| 21 | This is a common cause for referral to a general medical/gastroenterology clinic , accounting for 3% of new referrals in Lincoln . |
| 22 | We found 3% of new patients attending a mixed general medical/gastroenterology clinic had the condition . |
| 23 | In 1979 only 3% of unmarried women lived with their boyfriend . |
| 24 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |
| 25 | The curve for abnormal subareas has a limited sensitivity , but the specificity is high at 1 , for a scoring of 3% of abnormal subareas , which is the demarcation set by Ryder as a departure from normality . |
| 26 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 27 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 28 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 29 | In 1979 , the General Household Survey found that 10% of nonmarried women were cohabiting . |
| 30 | Roughly 10% of black Americans were found to have the mildly defective A glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant , more severe B variants occurring around the Mediterranean and in South East Asia . |