Example sentences of "[det] of [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They concluded that because approximately half of the 5 gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere each year by the consumption of fossil fuel remains in the atmosphere , the world temperature has already been affected . |
| 2 | Thurmaston 's northerly neighbour , Syston , had 54 framework knitters , 5 framesmiths and 3 woolcombers recorded in the parish register between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , but these craftsmen formed less than half of the 128 entries . |
| 3 | A secret report into the laboratory 's future concluded that the cheapest option was to close the laboratory , lay off half of the 200 scientists and move the rest to the government laboratories run by AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Almost half of the seventeen DUP candidates for the 1973 Assembly were Free Presbyterians . |
| 5 | Built with French technology , the Caju plant will process half of the 1,120 tons of rubbish collected daily in the Brazilian city into 600 tons of an organic compost known as fertilube . |
| 6 | In France , where shareholdings are not generally disclosed , seven of the ten companies are state owned and over half of the two hundred largest companies are family controlled . |
| 7 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 8 | But you 're saying anywhere between those two figures personally you will pay half of the two thousand five hundred and eighty nine |
| 9 | Although counting remained incomplete in several constituencies , it appeared that the Liberal Party had won 53 seats in the 88-member Legislative Assembly and its coalition partner , the National Party , had won nine ; the ALP and the Liberal-National alliance each now controlled half of the six state governments . |
| 10 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 11 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 12 | Around half of the 2,300 NHS hospitals were now providing only emergency services . |
| 13 | Combining the Forestry Commission 's annual squirrel statistics with information from almost half of the 2,300 private companies which own 60 per cent of Britain 's woodlands , the survey reveals that the imported grey squirrels are continuing to encroach on the red squirrel 's territory [ see ED 58 , 61 ] . |
| 14 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 15 | One Sunday league official yesterday forecast that more than half of the 130 teams , where boys of between nine and 15 play every Sunday , could go out of existence . |
| 16 | For the capitalist countries as a whole , about half of the 1 .7 per cent per year growth of the non-agricultural labour force between 1968 and 1973 resulted from a combination of a declining agricultural labour force and increasing female participation in non-agricultural labour ( table 11.3 ) . |
| 17 | Just under half of the fifty-one social work records examined did not contain a specific reference to the exact nature of the abuse , making opaque references to ‘ sexual abuse ’ , ‘ interference ’ and ‘ molestation ’ . |
| 18 | Its goal is to involve half of the 5,000 secondary schools in the UK within ten years . |
| 19 | South Devon Coroner Hamish Turner 's comments on the fact that around half of the 32 people who had committed suicide in the area in the past year had , at some stage , been treated at the centre . |
| 20 | Half of the 4,650 strikes in 1937 ( involving two million workers ) were over union recognition . |
| 21 | Half of the 6,000 women questioned admitted to having intercourse before marriage and a quarter of them to adulterous intercourse after marriage . |
| 22 | It was in 1989 that Gordon Bell Jr , of the University of Texas in Austin , noticed that around half of the fifty giant aquatic lizards known as mosasaurs showed the remains of healed gashes in their jaws and skulls . |
| 23 | More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care . |
| 24 | The Norwich Union Coastwatch UK survey found that almost half of the 2,185 kilometres of coastline surveyed by 6,000 volunteers showed evidence of litter and pollution . |
| 25 | The aim should be to re-cycle half of the 18 million tonnes of domestic rubbish produced in Britain each year within the next 10 years . |
| 26 | Only half of the 110 students on the BA ( Hons ) Business Studies course have found an employer willing to take them on . |
| 27 | The shortfall density algorithms , which worked outwards from seed words , were more successful , finding the correct interpretation in half of the ten trials . |
| 28 | More than 80 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds agreed with random breath testing and ID cards , as did more than half of the 15-17 age group . |
| 29 | Prior to the Miyagi defeat most commentators had expected Miyazawa to survive as party leader at least until the elections for half of the 252 upper house seats , scheduled for July . |
| 30 | About half of the 12 sections pass the authenticity and interest test with ease . |