Example sentences of "[num] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 2 | It was all over by about 9pm : the ruling Barisan had scored a resounding thumping victory — 49 out of 56 seats . |
| 3 | SHOOTING : Charlotte Lemmer , the captain of the Gresham 's School rifle team touring Jamaica , won two of the range championships at Kingston , scoring 49 out of 50 at both 500 and 900 yards . |
| 4 | Following several reminders , the final response rates were 91 per cent ( 29 out of 32 ) for probation officers , 58 per cent ( 49 out of 84 ) for social workers , and 46 per cent ( 81 out of 177 ) for GPs . |
| 5 | Although the USSR supplies the US with 33 per cent of the latter 's titanium , supply scarcities and limitations in manufacturing capability dictated producing the Mach 2.8 Mig-25 out of conventional steels ( although a titanium version was successfully flown and tested ) . |
| 6 | The Central Electoral Board stated that more than 1,300,000 out of 3,275,000 eligible voters had abstained , the highest abstention figure in the 37 elections held since the proclamation of independence in 1844 . |
| 7 | From 175 out of 450 county cricketers in 1949 the number of amateurs fell to 72 out of 370 in 1961 . |
| 8 | It was said that Stoddart never played better than in 1890 when representing the South against the North — he scored 115 out of 169 — as Attewell , Barnes , Briggs , and Peel bowled against him . |
| 9 | The success rate for prosecuting in the worst pollution cases was much higher — 115 out of 338 incidents . |
| 10 | Congress ( I ) nevertheless remained short of a majority in the Rajya Sabha in which it now held 115 out of 237 seats ( with eight seats vacant ) . |
| 11 | Thus when the CDU won its excess seat in 1987 its total representation , which should have been 173 , went up to 174 out of 496 plus one MdBs . |
| 12 | 67 out of 550 at the Albion works in Glasgow ; |
| 13 | Thirty-one out of thirty-six City banks joined in this key venture and it was also from their group that the practice of banks holding accounts at the Bank of England and re-discounting through it developed towards the end of the century . |
| 14 | The report from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis puts flooding as the biggest fear ( 252 out of 500 questioned ) . |
| 15 | Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty . |
| 16 | The Centers for Disease Control now reports evidence of hantavirus infection in 12 out of 42 deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) trapped around the homes of infected people , which suggests that this illness may have a rodent vector . |
| 17 | Fewer matches will be missed by England players , seven out of 17 rather than the present 12 out of 22 . |
| 18 | The same proportions were apparent in Primary PGCE courses , 12 out of 15 with 30+ hours , and all 15 with compulsory courses ( though one only had between 10 and 20 hours ) . |
| 19 | Twenty seven patients achieved clinical remission : 15 out of 17 ( 88.2% ; 95% CI 63.5–98.5 ) in the steroid group , and 12 out of 15 ( 80% ; 95% CI 51.9–95.7 ) in the PEN group ( p=0.43 ) . |
| 20 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
| 21 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 22 | 30 out of 182 ( 16.48% ) |
| 23 | In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 . |
| 24 | The Social Democratic Party ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) won 54.4 per cent of the votes in Land ( state ) elections in Saarland on Jan. 28 , taking 30 out of 51 seats in the Landtag ( state parliament ) . |
| 25 | By 1988 firm closure programmes had been devised for 43 out of 178 hospital units for mentally ill patients in England surveyed by the National Schizophrenia Fellowship ( NSF ) . |
| 26 | In Sind , traditionally regarded as its stronghold , the PPP won 43 out of 100 seats while its chief opponent , the MQM , won 47 . |
| 27 | King 's 32 was the only other score in double figures , while Greenidge 's 134 out of 211 represented 63.5 per cent of his team 's total , a proportion that has only once been exceeded in all Tests . |
| 28 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
| 29 | In another category of younger , government-sponsored students working towards postgraduate degrees , only 200 to 300 out of 12,000 have returned home . |
| 30 | In the seven months to November 1992 , it had lost only 300 out of 37,000 customers , mainly as a result of deaths . |