Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 2 | The formalised and structured use of a variety of books to support learning in schools came into play only when the school population had been weeded down to less that 10% of the state school population . ’ |
| 3 | Make that $31 with the popcorn . |
| 4 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 5 | The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | Some 80% of the water in each tank is changed weekly instead . |
| 7 | They have a 40% vote in the choice of the Labour leader ( with the party 's MPs and its rank-and-file sharing the rest ) ; up to 40% in the choice of parliamentary candidates ; and hitherto some 90% of the vote at the party 's annual conference , though this will come down to 70% this year . |
| 8 | This manoeuvre , however , opened a gap of some 48km/130mls between the German First and Second armies , inviting disaster . |
| 9 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 10 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 11 | Happily my inspector friend was at hand , He opened the Chief Constable 's hospitality cupboard , I had a dram and was told that they had been tipped off that afternoon about some Scot that would run some sheep through the Lion . |
| 12 | But then Adam , on his own initiative , paid a first instalment of some £12,400 to the merchant for the prime minister . |
| 13 | Oil accounted for over 60% of demand in 1983 but this proportion will fall to some 55% by the end of the century due to the faster rate of increase in demand for gas and coal . |
| 14 | If you simply do n't need the trace facility , and I suspect that few Spectrum users really will , then check out the screen-based programs and save a few bob into the bargain . |
| 15 | Most encouraging for the bookseller is the buoyant hardback market for genre titles : in part this is a result of the continuing proliferation of series which leave the poor punter desperate for the next instalment and willing to fork out the extra few bob for the hardcover . |
| 16 | They only had one objective — to save a few bob for the government . |
| 17 | Its nice to have a few bob in the bank in case too . |
| 18 | a few bob in the kitty |
| 19 | At the end of supper the Earl of Gowrie auctioned six items which raised another £20,000 for the charity . |
| 20 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 21 | The specialized frugivores are , in general , foraging for only a short period of the day — in the cases of manikins and cotingas , for only some 10% of the daylight hours . |
| 22 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 23 | ( Leguminosae ) , which readily regenerate after fire , make up some 25% of the log volume there . |
| 24 | An infrastructure has been established for campaigning in the years to come : a Leader and some 30 distinguished Patrons have agreed to support the Campaign ; an initial portfolio of investment projects has been drawn up ; and the Alumni database , with an active list of some 25% of the graduate body , is now operational . |
| 25 | They had some very funny ideas about the construction as it was some 300ft below the surface and some of the local people feared the whole land area would collapse . |
| 26 | The annual General Household Survey ( GHS ) , is based upon a sample of approximately 10,000 households resident in Great Britain , and provides some data about the prevalence of acute and chronic health problems as well as considering the utilization of health and social care services . |
| 27 | Now um I 've stuck in some data from the West study about um what sorts of feelings people reported themselves as having . |
| 28 | There are few data concerning the role of anti- H pylori treatment in gastric ulcer disease . |
| 29 | As is evident in Figure 2.1 this surface shows many irregularities compared with a simple oblate spheroid ; there is , for instance , a bulge of 76 m near New Guinea and a depression of some 104m to the south of India . |
| 30 | Now , you can see that in the ma mammal where this happens , there could be a very clear contrary as says , between the mother 's desire to start another offspring towards the end of the period of , of breast feeding , and the offspring 's interest in having some more milk and postponing the birth of the sibling . |