Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 2 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 3 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |
| 4 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 5 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 6 | When Sir John Harvey-Jones became chairman in 1982 , ‘ effect ’ chemicals were about 34% of turnover ; by the end of the decade , their share was 56% . |
| 7 | In 1985 the profits of Japan 's big car and consumer electronics industries were about 6% of their sales . |
| 8 | They were indeed works of art , great mop-headed beauties made from finely-cut wood shavings which curled into unbelievable shapes . |
| 9 | The nitrogen level in the microbial biomass was only 50% of the original 1 year after clearing and remained low ; little mineralized nitrogen was lost to the atmosphere by denitrification but much may be retained low in the soil profile . |
| 10 | In Wester Ross there was only 1% of permanent grass indicating that any land considered ploughable was termed arable , whilst in Powys the steep slopes dictated that there was no other option . |
| 11 | The peptide consisting of amino acids 62–171 was the smallest fragment responsible for the effect although its activity was only 13% of the intact clone ( lane 12 ) . |
| 12 | In the mid 1960s , the average income for black families was only 54% of the average for white families . |
| 13 | Although this did not attain statistical significance in individual groups , the proportion of γ-interferon expressing intra epithelial lymphocytes in untreated coeliacs was only 25% of the value found in normal mucosa and a similar reduction was found in other groups with mucosal pathology ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 14 | It was just 6% of total world factoring volumes in 1991 , according to Factors Chain International . |
| 15 | In vehicle pretreated rats only about 10% of the sections exhibited histological injury of grade III whereas it was nearly 30% of the sections in capsaicin pretreated animals that was covered by this severe degree of damage ( Figs 3 and 4A ) . |
| 16 | The Cecchini report , commissioned by the EC Commission in 1988 , entitled ‘ The Cost of Non-Europe ’ estimated that the total potential savings to the Community as a whole from the completion of the single market at 1988 prices was about 5% of the Community 's gross domestic product . |
| 17 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 18 | Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS . |
| 19 | We noted in Chapter 13 that consumption was around 50% of total final expenditure ( TFE ) in 1991 . |
| 20 | The total cost of accidents and failures was around 10% of turnover . |
| 21 | In the early 1980s total lending to industry was around 35% of GDP in the UK , 36% in France and 43% in West Germany . |
| 22 | The most striking finding was that 69% of the new firms were non-union . |