Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 2 | THE clobbering of their portfolios by Tokyo 's tumbling stockmarket ( down 23% on the Nikkei index since January ) has made 1990 a terrible year for those Japanese companies that dabble in stocks as a way of boosting their business profits . |
| 3 | The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south . |
| 4 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
| 5 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 6 | However , only £290 of the haul was in cash and the young woman was able to give a very full description of the thief . |
| 7 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 8 | They are among the most important disseminators of plant seeds ; and they eat perhaps 90% of the corpses of small animals . |
| 9 | In HWIM the correct phoneme was included in the top two scores of the vector only 65% of the time . |
| 10 | Loggers , they said , were getting a crack at 74% of the forests — with only 14% of the region receiving new protection . |
| 11 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 12 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 13 | There is a primitive look to them : they are small ( perhaps 100cm at the withers , and weighing 280–300kg , though they probably used to be larger ) and very narrow in the hindquarters . |
| 14 | Last month 's underlying decline of only $142m in the reserves seems an especially unrealistic guide to the actual level of intervention by the Bank of England — in concert with other central banks — to depress the dollar , and also — on its own account — to defend the weakening pound . |
| 15 | Even if 150,000 tons of traffic had been carried as Gordon Thomas hoped , the lockage would have represented only 25% of the total . |
| 16 | Only 25% of the population are covered by the basic health care system provided by the State , and the rest have to look after themselves . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Only 3pc of the population cycle in built-up areas but there is a huge demand for safe off-road facilities . ’ |
| 19 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 20 | There was strong support for this suggestion from every category of respondent , only 10% of the total registering disapproval . |
| 21 | Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs . |
| 22 | Only 10% of the banks risked the new-money option , while 41% agreed to debt reduction and 49% chose a lower interest rate . |
| 23 | The report states that about 45% of ancient woodlands have been destroyed or seriously damaged , compared with only 10% of the Amazon forests . |
| 24 | Today , following years of civil war , it remains a shadow of its former self , with its buildings devastated and only 10% of the farm 's 1000 acres under cultivation . |
| 25 | For example , a 20% fall in profits can be translated into a fall of only 10% in the PRP pool . |
| 26 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 27 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 28 | Only 3% of the incumbents completing the Parish Survey questionnaire indicated an unsatisfactory relationship with their director of music . |
| 29 | A recent survey in Sydney showed that only 3% of the organists in that city are remunerated at a realistic level for the hours and work involved . |
| 30 | When forest is cut in Amazonia , cations from the burn de-acidify the soil , releasing phosphorus from iron and aluminium compounds , but leaching rapidly removes the cations , only 18% of the standing crop potassium remaining after 3 years , while in crops only 3% of the nitrogen was incorporated ( only 1 % in the edible parts ) , 12% of the calcium ( 1% in edible parts ) 24% , potassium ( 4% in edible parts ) and 5% of the phosphorus ( 1% in the edible parts ) . |