Example sentences of "[noun prp] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Flanders a 33 per cent cut in overall capacity occurred between 1978 and 1987 , while a 46 per cent reduction took place between 1970 and 1987 in the Netherlands . |
| 2 | The dispute , which also affected the firm 's other factories , cost Renault an estimated F1,400 million ( about US$251 million ) and caused production losses of 70,000 cars . |
| 3 | Kwik Save , the supermarket group , gave retiring chairman Ian Howe a 43 per cent rise to £187,000 . |
| 4 | A Washington Post-ABC News poll published on Dec. 17 confirmed this finding , giving Bush a 47 per cent approval rating . |
| 5 | Cold predominates : the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30°C , and in Siberia an astonishing -50°C ; and in summer , the ground may remain frozen solid ( ‘ permafrost ’ ) except for the top metre or so . |
| 6 | He held Oklahoma , South Carolina and Nebraska , but other states forecast victory for Clinton by staggering margins : California — which had given Clinton a 17 per cent lead — put him ahead by 23 per cent ; Arizona 7 ; Ohio 5 ; Michigan 14 ; Colorado 11 ; New Jersey 13 ; Wisconsin 10 , Illinois 14 . |
| 7 | Even Bush 's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five per cent lead . |
| 8 | Conversation on the topic gave Flaubert a colique des wagons ; in June 1843 he pronounced the railways to be the third most boring subject imaginable after Mme Lafarge ( an arsenic poisoner ) and the death of the Duc d'Orleans ( killed in his carriage the previous year ) . |
| 9 | The London stockbrokers County Natwest Wood Mackenzie reported on Dec. 21 their calculation that the only major stock market in which a sterling investor would have realized an average gain during 1990 would have been Mexico , where booming market conditions would have produced a 53.2 per cent profit ; the UK , by comparison , would have produced a 7.7 per cent average loss , the West German market would have brought a 21.4 per cent loss , and the USA a 17.1 per cent loss . |
| 10 | In Poland a 15 per cent price rise on Oct. 5 was the latest in a series which had increased fuel prices by more than 50 per cent since the beginning of August . |
| 11 | The award gives BP a 25 per cent stake in blocks 35/8 and 35/6–36/4 and a 15 per cent stake in block 34/11 — the so-called ‘ golden block ’ — which will be operated by Norwegian state oil company Statoil . |