Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the colon , the contribution of liver to whole body protein synthesis in the absence of pathological conditions in man is unknown , but in the young rat the liver contributes only 13% of whole body protein synthesis . |
| 2 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 3 | On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas . |
| 4 | Mozambique produces only 15% of the food it needs to keep its markets stocked ; theft is rife . |
| 5 | The bank still receives only 1% of its total telephone billing , or for 500 of its 6,000 lines , via the system , Gilmont says . |
| 6 | He needs only 39% of the toss-up votes to claim a majority , compared with the 63% Bush requires . |
| 7 | New refrigeration and air conditioning plants utilise HCFC22 refrigerant which has only 5% of the ozone depleting potential of other commonly-used CFCs . |
| 8 | This probe detect weakly the 1.8 kbp fragment which contains only 30% of pBR322 sequences . |
| 9 | The spokeswoman says Database , which reported consolidated group revenues last year of $95.7m , needs approximately $24m in new capital . |
| 10 | Although HAL contains just 1% of the total amount of code in Solaris , it incorporates important application programming interface specifications for maintaining consistent operation across computers from different makers . |
| 11 | Both versions cost the same , and the fax option adds just £40 to the price . |
| 12 | The US has just 6% of the world 's population but consumes 30% of the world 's energy — compared with India where 20% of the global population use only 2% of the energy . |
| 13 | BRITAIN elects its House of Commons by the simplest possible system : single-member constituencies in which the front-runner wins , even if he has under 50% of the votes . |
| 14 | BT rings up £1bn with US sell off |
| 15 | He has nearly 29% of the company , but that will be reduced to just under 21% on flotation . |
| 16 | He has nearly 29pc of the company , but that will be reduced to just under 21pc on flotation . |
| 17 | Normally , the council has about 90pc of the 58,000 forms back by this time . |
| 18 | In the ‘ decameric sandwich ’ , CsA has about 80% of its surface hidden , leaving a solvent-accessible surface of 270 2 ; the CsA binding site ( and therefore the PPIase active site ) is completely inaccessible . |
| 19 | Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months . |
| 20 | The Hambros Currency Fund , which has about £26m under management , has a minimum investment of £1,000 with a portfolio consisting of three managed funds and two single currency funds . |
| 21 | It reckons MCI now has about 18% of the US long-distance business , up from about 14% three years ago . |
| 22 | One point to keep an eye on here is that the page printer has sufficient memory , a full page graphic at 300 dots per inch needs about 1M of RAM . |
| 23 | A glass of wine — red or white — contains about 15% of the recommended daily amount of iron for a man ; 10% for a woman . |
| 24 | When we started the project in 1983 we began in Peterborough , a fairly average city you would think , whose population contains about 17% of people of non-English origin . |
| 25 | Prime also owes about $235m to Bank of Boston , Chemical Bank and others , $92m to Prudential Life Insurance Co and more than $400m to its bondholders . |
| 26 | The Government still holds almost 22pc of the telecommunications giant and is selling ‘ substantially its entire holding ’ worth about £5 billion in the third sale of shares , known as BT3 . |
| 27 | PowerPC , which Mace describes as ‘ not elegant , but a good start , ’ incorporates around 15% of the 88110's architecure , re-engineered of course . |
| 28 | Texas Instruments has been in Japan 25 years , has around $1,000m in Japan-based revenues and — in direct contrast to Intel Corp — is a significant manufacturing presence , with four plants employing 3,500 in manufacturing plus another 2,000 in sales and administrative jobs . |
| 29 | Benny , eight , now has around £850 in his , while sister Laura , four , has £520 . |
| 30 | Currently the parent has around $3bn of funds under management , 70 per cent of which is invested in West Germany . |