Example sentences of "[adj] to [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Response rates varied from 98% in 1968–70 to about 90% in subsequent five year spans . |
| 2 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 3 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 4 | They point to the remarkably slow growth in the share of the non-marketable sector in the value of marketed output , rising from around 31% between 1955 and 1960 to only 33% between 1969 and 1973 . |
| 5 | Under Section 6 of the 1978 Act , which provides support for improvements to buildings , this amounted in 1984 to about £11,000 per job — which was relatively cost-effective . |
| 6 | In terms of value , roughly , that sum in the 1930s was equal to around £1500 in today 's money . |
| 7 | Smithers & Co , a research boutique , estimates that this year the corporate sector , excluding banks , will have to find new net external capital of ¥40 trillion ( $15 billion ) , equal to around 8% of GNP . |
| 8 | At the beginning of 1992 , Russian household savings were bigger than those of enterprises ; by the end of the year they were equal to only 18% of what the state-owned enterprises had in banks . |
| 9 | The figure of £2.6 million is equal to almost £300,000 per Tory MP in Scotland . |
| 10 | US revenues for this kind of software is projected to increase from $226m in 1992 to over $2.5b in 1996 . |
| 11 | Unemployment is forecast to rise sharply , up from 4% of the workforce in 1992 to nearly 6% in 1994 . |
| 12 | There have also been reductions in nicotine ( from an average of about 2mg in 1955–61 to about 1.3mg by 1980 ) and to a lesser extent in carbon monoxide ( 20.6mg in 1955–61 to 14.7mg in 1985 ) [ 2 ] . |
| 13 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 14 | For example , the share of foreign securities in the portfolios of Japanese life assurance companies rose from 2.7% in 1980 to over 13% by the end of 1987 . |
| 15 | The company says that service is now available to over 80% of the UK population , and that customers number around 1,000 subscribers from around 25 companies . |
| 16 | For instance , consumption in this latter sector C m fell from 56% of marketed output in 1961 to around 52% in 1969 . |
| 17 | Time deposits and CDs jumped from 230m. in 1982 to nearly 6bn in 1987 . |
| 18 | Cyclical industries — those in which cash flow bounces up and down in booms and slumps — lowered their debt-service ratio during the 1980s , from 20% in 1982 to around 13% by 1988 . |
| 19 | Wheway 's shares have slumped from a high of 140p in 1989 to just 7.5p at present . |
| 20 | A significant rise in gas demand is planned by 1990 with gas 's share of total energy consumption rising from 16% in 1983 to over 20% by 1990 . |
| 21 | Its input impedance when terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is On using equation ( 9.1 ) again , this relation reduces to Thus the network of figure 9.11(b) terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) presents impedance at its input terminals , precisely the required termination for constant-k or m-derived T-sections. since the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is very close to over 85% of the pass band when m = 0.6 , the half-section of figure 9.11(b) with m = 0.6 interposed between a fixed resistance and the output of a constant-k or m-derived T-section will provide the T-section with virtually correct termination over most of the pass band . |
| 22 | Last year its GNP grew by a heady 5.7% , despite a fall in real net exports equivalent to nearly 2% of its GNP . |
| 23 | The broadcasters ' costs up to the end of July 1990 were estimated as £595,000 , equivalent to approximately £20,000 per week . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the mean size of the equivalence classes is only 0.15% of the size of the lexicon , and the largest class is only equivalent to about 1% of the size . |
| 25 | The Training Agency 's estimated total expenditure for 1989–90 was 2.5 billion , equivalent to about 10% of the total expenditure of the DES ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.3 ) . |
| 26 | Equation ( 2.2 ) suggests that the desired stock of investment will rise by some 0.51% in the current quarter , equivalent to around £300m on the end-1988 stock . |