Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore 80% of all deaths in the inducible group were instantaneous and in 63% ventricular tachycardia was documented . |
| 2 | There were many benefits , from a variety of sources , and only 14% of part-time farmers interviewed said they received none . |
| 3 | Nowadays it is much less common and only 25% of new cases are found in children , ie the onset of the disease has been greatly delayed . |
| 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 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 6 | Within the group of authorities with an establishment over 300 , 12 of the 15 libraries ( 80% ) specifically budgeted an amount for training , 71% of libraries with establishments of between 100–300 did so , while only 55% of small libraries specifically budgeted money for training . |
| 7 | In 1979 only 3% of unmarried women lived with their boyfriend . |
| 8 | Only 12% of female workers had reached supervisory and 1% managerial positions , while the equivalent figures for men were 36% and 34% . |
| 9 | You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds . |
| 10 | By contrast , only 20% of divorced parents with children succeeded in stopping smoking . |
| 11 | Only 20% of electric cables are buried beneath the streets in Tokyo , compared with 100% in London and Paris . |
| 12 | In the 1980s series only 13% of antral tumours were surrounded by normal mucosa whereas this proportion was higher in cancers found in the body ( 28.2% ) and especially in the cardia ( 53.5% ) ( antrum v cardia , p<0.001 ) . |
| 13 | Only 13% of antral tumours were surrounded by histologically normal mucosa compared with over 50% of tumours in the cardia . |
| 14 | In 1989 only 13% of single mothers received any maintenance , and average payments were lower , at £14.94 ( $13 ) a week , than the average of £26.81 for all lone parents . |
| 15 | In 1971 , only 38% of secondary school-children attended comprehensive schools ; in 1980 , the proportion was 83% . |
| 16 | ( Gamgee himself found that 42% of 2,664 horses in this country were lame , but only 9% of 286 horses in Paris . ) |
| 17 | Only 19% of western schoolchildren , according to a recent poll , want to make contacts with eastern pupils . |
| 18 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 19 | Our finding in the present study that only 5% of sporadic adenomas express detectable levels of p53 protein is clearly in line with the results of these other workers , and the use of three different anti-p53 antibodies including ‘ mutant specific ’ Pab 240 , provides further evidence that the protein detected is a mutant form . |
| 20 | However , the survey of 3,600 people found that afternoon drinking was still the exception with only 6% of recent drinkers ( those who have had an alcoholic drink in the previous week ) having had a drink in licensed premises between 4pm and 5pm during the previous week . |
| 21 | Only 30% of secondary schools in areas where there was no regional policy had developed their own policy . |
| 22 | For example in 1983 , only 30% of unemployed men had working wives , compared with 58% of employed household heads . |
| 23 | As Table 16 , below , shows , whereas not one serial and only 2% of defective monographs were categorised as ‘ Fragile ’ , 18% of defective newspapers fell into this category , and while around eight out of ten defective monographs and serials ( 81% and 78% respectively ) showed sufficiently little deterioration to be categorised as ‘ Poor ’ , only six out of ten newspapers ( 62% ) could be so described . |
| 24 | However , the prevalence of gastric adenocarcinoma does not exceed 1–3% in patients with pernicious anaemia , and only 2% of gastric adenocarcinomas are associated with pernicious anaemia . |
| 25 | At that time the value was agreed at £600 but it was subsequently discovered that only £200 of these spares were of any use . |
| 26 | This observation is borne out by the Commission s statistical Parish Survey in which it appears that only 43% of Anglican churches have one or more Evensongs with a choir each month ( see Appendix 2.5 ) . |
| 27 | It is astonishing that more Protestants now study in universities on the mainland — more than a quarter — than are to be found in the University of Ulster ; and if we take the total , only 55pc of Protestant students now study here . |
| 28 | 95% of male names have a first syllable which is strongly stressed , whereas only 7% of female names show this pattern . |
| 29 | Only 29% of British workers choose a salad for lunch — steak and kidney pie and fish and chips are almost as popular . |
| 30 | Lack of childcare provision means only 28% of British mums with under fives go out to work , compared with Denmark ( 44% ) , France and Belgium ( 50% ) . |