Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ingredients : 12 oz of wholemeal noodles , 4–5 leeks , oil , vegetable stock and curry powder , grated cheese and single cream . |
| 2 | Of the world 's 53 subspecies of Asian hornbills , only nine , in the terminology of a recent conference on the status of these birds , are ‘ stable ’ . |
| 3 | Forty-four of the world 's 53 subspecies of Asian hornbills are vulnerable to , or directly facing , extinction because of the loss of their forest habitat , principally due to logging , according to findings presented to a conference in Singapore . |
| 4 | And in fact nineteen ninety three is really something of a pivotal year because according to at the beginning of ninety three probably something like forty percent of new applications built using the client server model . |
| 5 | Forty percent of those procedures were written for the '89 shutdown and the other sixty percent for the 1991 overhaul . |
| 6 | In the continuing search for coal , the Killary Glebe borehole near Dungannon penetrated 390 ft of Carboniferous strata beneath the Permo-Trias without reaching their base ; the Westphalian was missing but there were thin Namurian coals . |
| 7 | For a small pudding , enough for four people , you need 1 lb. of home-made white bread at least two or three days old ; 2 lb. of ripe mulberries ; about 6 oz. of white sugar ; a Pyrex soufflé mould of 20-oz. capacity . |
| 8 | 2 lb. of green gooseberries ; ½ lb. of sugar ; a minimum of " is pint of double cream . |
| 9 | Nearly 30 species of oceanic birds were obtained by Gould in this manner on the way to Australia . |
| 10 | Like British Rail , the British Waterways Board , which controls 3600 km of inland waterways , loses money . |
| 11 | Between the slimline deskside 400 series and the 240 desktop machine comes a new Level 300 series of low-end servers designed in conjunction with ICL parent Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 12 | Along rivers whose names betray their English and Indian heritage — the James , Wye , Severn , Nanticoke , Wicomico , Pocomoke — a careful observer can find any of 10 species of submerged grasses . |
| 13 | The six species of antarctic seals are summarized in Table 5.2 ; for surveys of their ecology see King ( 1983 ) , Laws ( 1984 ) and Bonner ( 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Walking : Brand and the surrounding area boasts over 100 km of marked paths , weaving through the breathtaking alpine scenery . |
| 15 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |
| 16 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 17 | In fact , according to a recent Scottish Tourist Board survey , 79 percent of all visitors to Scotland come because of the heritage attractions , putting activities such as hillwalking , fishing and golf well down the list . |
| 18 | and I told the English language have got about fifty percent of Roman ways |
| 19 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 20 | When Wakefield played a full part in the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 350 people of various denominations gathered for the main service of the week at the new church of St Peter and St Paul . |
| 21 | The source potential and maturity of the 7000 ft of Cambrian shales at the Cooles Farm borehole have not been reported . |
| 22 | Although Raytheon has guaranteed to purchase the major sub assemblies , fuselage and wings , from the main BAe Airbus plant at Broughton , there is no guarantee of continued assembly by the 600 staff of Corporate Jets . |
| 23 | Although Raytheon has guaranteed to purchase the major sub-assemblies , fuselage and wings from the main BAe Airbus plant at Broughton , there is no guarantee of continued assembly by the 600 staff of Corporate Jets . |
| 24 | Although the parliamentary campaign , backed by 350 MPs of all parties , originally asked for £100 million to help the victims , the demands have been scaled down . |
| 25 | Three species of arctic residents , Lapland longspurs , snow buntings and rock ptarmigan , are joined annually by a dozen species of long-distance migrants — red-throated divers ( loons ) Gavia stellata , arctic terns Sterna paradisaea , oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis , common and king eider Somateria mollissima and S . |
| 26 | There are echinoderms , brachiopods , primitive molluscs , and half a dozen species of segmented worms — further representatives of the lineage that stretches from the beaches of Ediacara to the Barrier Reef of today . |
| 27 | A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them . |
| 28 | Species diversity in the early Miocene East African hominoids is high , with two to three species of Proconsul- related forms and two to three species of small-bodied apes present at many sites . |
| 29 | Three species of arctic residents , Lapland longspurs , snow buntings and rock ptarmigan , are joined annually by a dozen species of long-distance migrants — red-throated divers ( loons ) Gavia stellata , arctic terns Sterna paradisaea , oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis , common and king eider Somateria mollissima and S . |
| 30 | In Costa Rica , three species of different genera of ferns were examined and have been found to carry a fauna as rich as that on angiosperms ; damage was just as great . |