Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air stank with the odour from the stalls , now freshly stocked with herring , cod , tench and even pike as the fishing fleets took advantage of a break in the weather . |
| 2 | An increasingly popular alternative for visitors to continental Europe are Eurocheques and Eurocards , but they can be expensive , with typical charges around £8 a year for the card and around £2 for each cheque cashed . |
| 3 | It is 4,451 km long and crosses 150 km of perma-frost , 700km of swamp and over 500km of mountains . |
| 4 | When Mlanenko and Fran Mravak arrived in Cornwall from war-torn Crotia they had a battered car and just £400 to their names . |
| 5 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 6 | During that time it is anticipated they will account for initially 3% and ultimately 18% of aggregates provision . |
| 7 | During that time it is anticipated they will account for initially 3% and ultimately 18% of aggregates provision . |
| 8 | Toyota reckon to get 50 to 100 suggestions each year from every employee and about 50% of them are accepted . |
| 9 | Local authorities ' expenditure on education amounted to 17 billion , 74% of it on schools and approximately 10% on further education ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Tables 11.1–2 , 15.2 , 16.1–2 and 21.4.8–9 ) . |
| 10 | IBM Corp 's vast personal computer contract with the former Soviet Ministry of Education ended early with just 15,000 machines installed in schools and only 75% of those paid for , IBM Europe chief Renato Riverso told the Wall Street Journal ; he also said that IBM has yet to receive its first payment on its $150m contract to provide Aeroflot with a modern reservations system . |
| 11 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 12 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
| 13 | But TCR- -positive DP cells have been detected in the late embryonic thymus and about 1% of TCR - -positive cells in the postnatal TCR- β mutant thymus are DP ( data not shown ) . |
| 14 | Some £2.7m goes to the management and around £5.5m to existing institutional investors 3i and County NatWest Ventures , which are selling about half their holdings . |
| 15 | The mutant form of the endonuclease R· Eco K ts-1 produced only 20% linear DNA at 30°C and about 10% at 42°C . |
| 16 | Recipients like the widow of Oswestry who in 1788 got an allowance of 3s ( 15p ) a week for three years supplemented by occasional special payments — 1s to hedge her garden , 3s ( 15p ) for seed potatoes and even £1 for thatching straw — are far from uncommon . |
| 17 | A similar comparison of 1984 and 1992 child benefit rates , taking into account the increase in earnings , shows that the benefit from next April should be £12.55p per child ; instead it will be £9.65p for the first child and only £7.80p for each subsequent child . |
| 18 | • 41% wanted care at G.P. surgery , 34% in their own home and only 16% in hospital . |
| 19 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | Federal agents have seized dozens of bank accounts and about $30m in Florida office buildings , homes and other properties owned by Carlos Cardoen . |
| 21 | They were recorded using a Panasonic WV-CD1E miniature video camera fixed to the bonnet of the car directly in line with the driver and approximately 10cm in front of the bottom of the windscreen . |
| 22 | Make your own natural remedy by melting 40g of beeswax in a double boiler , blending in 30g of honey and then 55g of sesame oil . |
| 23 | If Mercury consists of a largely iron core and a largely silicate mantle , then the core would account for about 80% of the mass and about 40% of the volume , which would make Mercury richer in iron than any other planet . |
| 24 | An efficient port transport system is vital to Britain 's economy as trade accounts for nearly 60% of national income and over 90% of all imports and exports pass through the nations ports . |
| 25 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 26 | Agencies will have to agree on definitions of needs and how people with different degrees of need will be prioritised when services are rationed . |
| 27 | Over 25% of the sample companies felt the linguistic skills of these staff were inadequate for the job and over 50% of these companies had experienced poorer export performance as a direct result . |
| 28 | He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's very rare we get an application of this nature and unfortunately 80pc of it has been thrown out and lost to the people of Derwentside . |
| 30 | We should actually be pushing saying for those Health Ser Service erm workers and also people in the public who are not doing that , not a case of , we do n't want you to and this is a case against it , although that 's strong . |