Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [n mass] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This machine uses only 12 ltr of water , 10 g each of salt and detergent and 0.8 kWh of electricity for a normal 65°C wash .
2 The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) .
3 You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food .
4 The patches seemed to be of two types : Nicorene , Nicotine Patch , Nicocheck , and Nicoban were of closely similar or identical appearance and on analysis contained only 0.4 mg of nicotine per patch .
5 The most economical wash uses only 16 ltr of water and 0.45 kWh of energy .
6 X ) may act as the control variable and only 1 byte of memory will be used .
7 Only one species of mustelid was found to provide a sample of small mammal bones from scat collections , although several other species were investigated .
8 Only one species of petrel , the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis , breeds throughout the Arctic , on cliffs in Iceland , Svalbard , Greenland , the Canadian archipelago and Siberian high arctic islands .
9 There is only one species of orang-utan and two races .
10 They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available .
11 NEXT loop and only one byte of memory will be used .
12 The all-auto compact offers only one means of control through the DX film cassette coding .
13 In 1985 only 15 species of bird nested on the farm ; in 1992 our breeding list had reached 45 species and we had 156 pairs of birds nesting here .
14 Such activity is necessitated by the provision of only 420 km of game-viewing in a reserve of 1673 km 2 and the fact that there are relatively low populations of the carnivores , individuals of which do not always locate themselves in convenient spots !
15 The machine takes 12 place settings and uses only 20 ltr of water and 1.6 kWh of energy for a normal 65°C including two quick-wash , two economy wash and an extra-intensive wash at 70°C .
16 Ninety per cent of the seeds in their faeces belonged to just eight species of tree and one liane , the rest to 15 other liane species .
17 There are approximately 3000 species of cricket in the world .
18 Seven healthy adult volunteers ( six men , aged 21–43 years ) underwent gastric intubation studies At 07:30 , after an overnight fast , approximately 300 ml of water were drunk and a sample of all urine passed subsequently was saved .
19 Add just 3 tbsp of syrup and just 4 tbsp of treacle and blend well .
20 Although the serum antigliadin antibody-IgA value was more closely related to the study phase , a negative result could still be found in coeliac disease patients challenged with 500 mg/day of gliadin , a dose corresponding to a ‘ visible ’ amount of daily gluten containing food ( approximately 12.5 g of wheat flour ) .
21 Add just 3 tbsp of syrup and just 4 tbsp of treacle and blend well .
22 An example of the interactions between living things in which both partners would appear to benefit equally occurs in the Amazon Forest where one particular species of orchid is pollinated by just one species of bee which seems to be tailor-made to fit the flower which it pollinates .
23 This year not one Lira of government funds has been spent on restoration
24 In the first reaction above the neutron carries away 2.45 MeV of energy , while in the second the proton has 3 MeV .
25 This gamma ray carries away 24 MeV of energy but this process is very rare , occurring some ten million times less frequently than the neutron or tritium production channels .
26 A full wash uses just 20 ltr of water and 1.6 kWh of energy .
27 Herefordshire was worst of three counties affected , the village of Ewyas Harold was under 4 ft of water by breakfast time .
28 Whilst water stress periods depressed production of wheat grown under normal carbon dioxide levels , wheat grown under 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide produced as much as unstressed plants grown at the current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide , and remained turgid at moisture levels that wilted their unexposed counterparts .
29 Altogether , during the outward voyage and the return passage around Cape Horn , Gould , as he described in his introduction to the Birds of Australia , ‘ was enabled to obtain nearly forty species of petrel , being the finest collection of Procellaridae ever brought together ’ , as well as examining and preserving numerous other species that came by chance to hand .
30 We 're like , we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this
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