Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williamson donated more than £500,000 to Lancaster and about £100,000 to Lytham St Annes , where he spent an increasing amount of time after 1913 . |
| 2 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |
| 3 | Price of oil falls from US$30 a barrel to $18 on perceptions of overwhelming allied military strength ; oil price stands just below $20 at end-January and about $18 at end-February . |
| 4 | Compacts now account for almost all the Dutch market , four-fifths in Sweden and about 30% in Europe overall . |
| 5 | House Dust Mites are a major factor in Asthma , a condition which affects over 2 million people in Britain and over 10% of children . |
| 6 | If 1975 is taken instead , the increase was only 10% , compared with 50% in Germany , 70% in the US and almost 180% in Japan . |
| 7 | The CBI points out that UK dividends , as a percentage of post-tax profits , have been consistently higher than elsewhere , reaching more than 70% last year , compared with 54% in the US and under 35% in Germany and Japan . |
| 8 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |