Example sentences of "[adv] high concentration of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’
2 The low pepsinogen A:C ratio in patients with hypertrophic gastropathy is mainly caused by the extremely high concentrations of serum pepsinogen C in these patients .
3 There is a much higher concentration of minority groups in Kent wing , together with a mosque and synagogue and it may be that this also helps .
4 There appears to be a much higher concentration of virus particles in the lesions of genital as opposed to skin warts .
5 It is assumed that gastric metaplasia arises from the necks of Brunner 's glands and is the result of a persistently high concentration of acidity in the duodenal bulb .
6 During the drought of 1976 this resulted in an unusually high concentration of nitrate in the aquifers under parts of East Anglia and warnings were issued in some areas that babies should be given only bottled water to drink .
7 2 of the 6 patients had unusually high concentrations of glutamate : 75 ( 1.3 ) and 49 ( 2.4 ) mol/L in the epileptogenic hippocampus , and 68 ( 2.8 ) and 47 ( 1.8 ) mol/L in the non-epileptogenic hippocampus respectively .
8 Pelagic species that live among ice contain antifreeze agents , often unusually high concentrations of plasma proteins ( Hargens , 1972 ) .
9 The disease , however , may be triggered in moles containing unusually high concentrations of melanin .
10 The atmospheric ‘ ozone layer ’ is a layer of relatively high concentration of ozone ( O 3 ) located in the stratosphere .
11 Because saliva contains relatively high concentrations of alkali , accounting for about 3% of bicarbonate within the oesophagus , it is important that amylase concentrations measured in oesophageal fluid accurately reflect salivary contamination .
12 Biliary sludge contains cholesterol crystals , calcium bilirubinate granules , and very high concentrations of mucin glycoprotein , a putative nucleating agent .
13 In this way , by successive doublings , they managed to evolve a strain of RNA that could self-replicate in very high concentrations of ethidium bromide , 10 times as concentrated as the poison that had inhibited the original ancestral V2 RNA .
14 There were significantly higher concentrations of GABA in the non-epileptogenic hippocampus ( p<0.05 ) after the seizure .
15 Malignant ascites contained significantly higher concentrations of urokinase ( 0.7 ( <0.1- 1.3 ) ng/ml v 0.2 ( <0.1–0.6 ) ng/ml in alcoholic ascites ) and plasminogen activator inhibitor 2 ( 33 ( <6–140 ) ng/ml v 9 ( <6–28 ) ng/ml alcoholic ascites ) .
16 Also patients with cirrhosis had significantly higher concentrations of laminin in serum than controls ( p<0.0001 ) .
17 Significantly higher concentrations of laminin were found in patients whose alcohol intake was higher than 100 g/day compared with those with a lower intake ( p=0.03 ) , although there was no significant correlation between laminin concentrations and the amount ingested or with the years of ingestion .
18 Huber et al showed more plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in malignant ascites than in alcoholic ascites and Casslen and Astedt found significantly higher concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in malignant ascites than in benign ascites .
19 A significantly higher concentration of urokinase was found in malignant ascites ( 0.3 ( <0.1–0.6 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 0.7 ( <0.1–1.3 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) .
20 Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity .
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