Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim .
2 An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates .
3 Arsenic is very volatile and was unobtainable by ancient smelting techniques , but arsenic minerals commonly occur in association with copper ores and an alloy with a few per cent can be obtained by smelting these .
4 Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point .
5 In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells .
6 To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time .
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