Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme will use up LWT 's £50m of cash and bring in £72.5m of borrowings . |
| 2 | ‘ These workshops bring in people of mixed physical and mental disabilities , who are usually excluded from these sort of things . |
| 3 | They are among the most important disseminators of plant seeds ; and they eat perhaps 90% of the corpses of small animals . |
| 4 | These two supply about 1% of Manchester 's needs . |
| 5 | Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year . |
| 6 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | What I do is place two or three handfuls of biscuit into a polythene bag , then mix about 20ml of a favourite bait flavour into half a cup of lukewarm water . |
| 8 | If the puncture is in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it at the puncture site , and remove about 20mm of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a compression fitting . |
| 9 | Vets who cut out 10ft of his gut to cure colic on November 25 gave him a less than even chance of survival . |
| 10 | Our laboratory had been routinely screening with probes cf56a , cf56b , and 9–7 , which cover about 93% of deletions in our population . |
| 11 | These count as 20% of the assessment , half of which is externally marked . |
| 12 | Four regions cover over 98% of the UK population so from these it 's easy to select the right coverage package . |
| 13 | OPCS data record only 35% of deaths from liver disease in Wales as being alcohol related , yet in our district hospital sample 67% proved to be related to alcohol . |
| 14 | ‘ I would challenge Michael Fallon to withdraw his remarks and accept only 25pc of under fives are in nursery education . ’ |
| 15 | SparcWare is driven by the need to lower the support costs that eat up 50% of every software engineering dollar and expand the market for independent software vendors . |
| 16 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
| 17 | Meals out eat up 20pc of nation 's food bill |
| 18 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 19 | Of the 169 companies listed , five make up 85% of the value of the composite index . |
| 20 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 21 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 22 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 23 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 24 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 25 | Their rural cousins , who still make up 75% of the population , scratch a living from the soil . |
| 26 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 27 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 28 | According to the 1986 English House Condition Survey , households 75+ only make up 10% of all households , but they occupy almost a third of dwellings lacking basic amenities and 16% of unfit dwellings . |
| 29 | Accidents and vandalism make up 25pc of claims for loss of use of the vehicle . ’ |
| 30 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |