Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is 4,451 km long and crosses 150 km of perma-frost , 700km of swamp and over 500km of mountains . |
| 3 | When Mlanenko and Fran Mravak arrived in Cornwall from war-torn Crotia they had a battered car and just £400 to their names . |
| 4 | Toyota reckon to get 50 to 100 suggestions each year from every employee and about 50% of them are accepted . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | • 41% wanted care at G.P. surgery , 34% in their own home and only 16% in hospital . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Opposition ’ states now embrace 58% of the population and nearly 80% of GNP . |
| 17 | Paradise is the work of a passionate activist , written at the height of the struggle to win recognition of the disaster from the Japanese establishment and even people in Minamata itself . |
| 18 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 19 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 20 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |
| 21 | Some degree of tachycardia was experienced by all patients during the procedure and approximately 23% of patients in each group showed appreciable tachycardia during the procedure . |
| 22 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
| 23 | Indirect taxation in the form of VAT is a major source of UK tax revenue , accounting for about half of the take from commodity taxation and about 15% of total tax revenue . |
| 24 | Electricity generated by the one remaining PWR was expected to cost 8p ( possibly 10p , according to one report ) a kilowatt hour against 3p for power from a modern coal-fired power station and about 2.5p from one of the advanced gas turbine power stations . |
| 25 | Many potentially toxic gases are present in higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke [ 2 ] . |
| 26 | About 50% of teenagers do develop acne and about 5% of women continue to suffer spot problems into late 20 's and early 30's . |
| 27 | 1052 adult members of the Association of Cystic Fibrosis Adults UK , accounting for 68% of those with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom population over 16 years of age and over 80% of those over 25 in June 1990 . |
| 28 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 29 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 30 | In a recent study , 10% of Barro Colorado Island was used in sampling and only 80% of the known flora was found . |