Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pursuant to section 67 of this Act the Secretary of State laid before Parliament and subsequently issued Code C , the ‘ Code of Practice for the Detention , Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers . ’ |
| 2 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 3 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 4 | In 1981 the world produced 323000 tonnes , and 180000 of those tonnes grew in California . |
| 5 | Though margins on top-notch corporate loans have nearly doubled in the American market to about 50 basis points ( hundredths of one percent ) , they must widen further before it is worth lending in the midst of a recession . |
| 6 | It was announced on Oct. 27 , 1988 , that an agreement had been reached with 11 " Paris Club " creditor countries for the rescheduling of USdollars 940,000,000 of Moroccan debt . |
| 7 | The Bourdillon figure relates closely to other standards for public libraries , such as the IFLA recommendation for 1972 of 250 volumes per thousand population . |
| 8 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 9 | Around the turn of the century , when the rate of litigation was lower and officials were less willing to allow complainants to drop charges , about one-half of all cases came to trial . |
| 10 | About one-half of all elements are allotropes . |
| 11 | If one assumes that there was an average of one complainant and four witnesses for each two persons accused , over one-half of all men appeared in a criminal court as a defendant , complainant or witness every year . |
| 12 | Only 31 per cent of disabled adults under pensionable age are in paid employment and , for one-half of disabled adults under pensionable age , there are no earners in the family unit at all ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1988a ) . |
| 13 | After work leisure time appears to be dominated by association with colleagues such that various surveys show that one-half of male employees interviewed ate supper outside their home twice or more each week . |
| 14 | They found that less than one-half of total lending to industry in the UK had a maturity of less than one year in 1980 , with a similar percentage for France and West Germany , and an even higher one for Japan . |
| 15 | About one-half of these classes were to be found in the footwear and clothing towns in Northamptonshire with other noteworthy Tutorial Class continuities in Bedford , Cambridge , Halstead , Ipswich , Luton and Norwich ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 16 | Full details of our AH grading system and hotel selection with special offers is featured on pages 10–14 of this brochure . |
| 17 | Only 12 of 32 patients referred with rectal or rectosigmoid cancer who received laser therapy during the 18 month period were entered into this study . |
| 18 | On Nov. 16 , 1989 , the Sejm adopted an amnesty law for " crimes " committed before Sept. 12 of that year . |
| 19 | The admission by the government on March 1 of the extent of illegal exports of arms and ancillary equipment to Iraq ( valued at about DM1,000 million ) and the initiation on March 12 of criminal proceedings against persons involved in exporting poison gas to Iraq further heightened controversy [ see also pp. 38020 ; 38298 ] . |
| 20 | Flexifoil sizes vary from the 122cm ( 48in ) Hot Shot with an aspect ratio of 2.7 to the 393cm ( 154.5in ) Hyper 12 of 5.7 aspect ratio . |
| 21 | Considerable gaseous dilatation of the small and large bowel was consistently seen in the AL and the AH patients during their hospital stay ( Fig 1 ) , whereas the abnormal gas disappeared after treatment in 12 of 13 patients with AA ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 22 | No soiling was present in 12 of 55 children ( 22% ) >3 to 4 years of age . |
| 23 | The epidemic strain was responsible for 1 of 5 patients colonised with P cepacia in 1989 , and 12 of 16 cases by 1992 . |
| 24 | Under Ordinance 12 of 1840 forest land was declared the property of the Crown , and in some districts a large proportion of it was sold for plantation development . |
| 25 | Clinical remission was seen in 18 of 32 patients treated with 5-ASA and 12 of 31 patients treated with bismuth citrate — carbomer ( ) . |
| 26 | The law applicable to a contract by virtue of articles 3 to 6 and 12 of this Convention shall govern in particular : ( a ) interpretation ; ( b ) performance ; ( c ) within the limits of the powers conferred on the court by its procedural law , the consequences of breach , including the assessment of damages in so far as it is governed by rules of law ; ( d ) the various ways of extinguishing obligations , and prescription and limitations of actions ; ( e ) the consequences of nullity of the contract . |
| 27 | Gane & Sarson and other writers on structured analysis also advocate the use of data dictionaries ( discussed in Chapter 12 of this text ) and other tools of data analysis , such as normalisation ( discussed in Sections 3.7 and 3.8 ) . |
| 28 | Three patients from the amoxicillin/omeprazole group complained of side effects ( 15.8% ; mouth burning : n=2 , pruritus : n=1 ) , whereas undesired effects were reported in 12 of 19 patients in the triple therapy group ( 63.2% ; diarrhea : n=4 , sleep disturbances : n=2 , dizziness : n=2 , paresthesias of the legs : n=2 , anal pruritus : n=2 , mouth burning : n=1 , nausea : n=1 , fatigue : n=1 ) . |
| 29 | The mean coefficient of variation of 12 of these series of repeated measurements was 18% . |
| 30 | Using this definition at King 's College Hospital , surgical intervention was necessary in 12 of 252 children ( 4.4% ) and 25 of 540 of adults ( 4.6% ) with bleeding oesophageal varices treated by injection sclerotherapy over a five year period . |