Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] 50 [unc] " in BNC.

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1 I 've wondered whether we ought to separate but every time I bring this up , he cries and then worries about the 50 per cent of ‘ his ’ assets I 'll take with me if I do decide to go !
2 OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books .
3 Its bid for 1992–3 was late , so it did n't benefit from the 50 per cent increase , and there is great pressure to meet the standards required for grant status .
4 The coupled Sepharose was packed in a 1.5 cm×1.3 cm column and carefully washed with a 50 mmol/l Tris/HCl , pH 8.0 , 0.15 mol/l NaCl buffer .
5 While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease .
6 The statement called for a 50 per cent reduction , ‘ appropriately applied ’ , in their strategic arsenals , an interim INF agreement and appropriate measures to ‘ prevent an arms race in space ’ .
7 The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent .
8 Then spiral the bandage , aiming for a 50 per cent overlap
9 So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself .
10 Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing .
11 Dutch manure and fertiliser rates are due to be reduced until a 50 mg/litre soil water concentration is achieved at 2m depth , later to be cut to 25 mg/litre .
12 Evidence of a recovery is provided by the 50 per cent jump in reservations during 1993 which has also seen a ‘ strong advance in sales ’ .
13 Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 .
14 There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 per cent jump in programme hours .
15 The new pension arrangements will need to be established for the 50 per cent .
16 The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate .
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