Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Federal agents have seized dozens of bank accounts and about $30m in Florida office buildings , homes and other properties owned by Carlos Cardoen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Agencies will have to agree on definitions of needs and how people with different degrees of need will be prioritised when services are rationed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After three years and approximately £2m of research and development , SeaChange 4 began shipping on March 31 . |
| 13 | What 's more , if you know at least nine other stamp collectors , you can join as a group member for even less — just £2.20 for two years and only £3.50 for five years ! |
| 14 | In fact , all European countries were likely to have more than one nationality within their frontiers and often people of the same nationality would live in several countries . |
| 15 | Europeans are not used to paying the higher room rates and around £100 to £110 seems to be about the limit . |
| 16 | Though £80m of this was swapped into fixed rate money recently , this was still at what the company calls ‘ usurious ’ rates and only £60m of this total was borrowed at interest rates significantly below the high levels of today . |
| 17 | In comparison , 60% of nursery-users and only 48% of childminder-users felt the same way . |
| 18 | They 're not just flat decorated cakes , but 3D creations , almost sculptures and certainly works of art . |
| 19 | Hence more than 97% of the tokens and approximately 91% of the types in the test corpus are covered by the lexicon . |
| 20 | In 1985 the Hong Kong government , faced with 350,000 vehicles and only 1,227km of roads ( an unequalled density ) decided on an experiment with electronic toll collection . |
| 21 | For those currencies in respect of which the home authorities allow bonds to be issued out of foreign centres , most structuring of issues and about 65% of primary issuance have taken place in London in recent years . |
| 22 | Special all-day Purbeck Line runabout tickets are available during the weekend at £5 for adults and just £2.50 for children . |
| 23 | ‘ More than £3m is being spent on the towns and just £54,000 on the villages . |
| 24 | PeopleSoft Inc , Walnut Creek , California says it intends to file with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to offer about 350,000 new shares and about 1.2m to be sold by existing shareholders.The proceeds will be used for working capital . |
| 25 | He had won eight events and nearly $2,000,000 in his 12 years on the US Tour . |