Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where 10% of pregnant women are HIV positive , the under five mortality rate for AIDS alone will be equal to the under five child mortality rate from all causes in industrialised countries . |
| 2 | In January , for the first time since April 1985 , fewer than 50% of new apartments in the greater Tokyo area were sold ; Daikyo , Japan 's leading apartment-block developer , had a nationwide sales rate of only 47% . |
| 3 | Lotus Development Corp president Jim Manzi says that the company 's flagship 1-2-3 spreadsheet may account for less than 50% of total revenues this quarter , for the first time in the company 's history — it accounted for 74% in 1991 ; he also says that lower marketing and development costs should allow the company to deliver an operating margin of 15% to 18% next year . |
| 4 | By the late 80s , this figure had spiralled to more than 50% of all marriages — and it is still rising . |
| 5 | Duke 's A and B lesions account for our 75% of cancers detected in asymptomatic individuals by initial faecal occult blood testing , while less than 50% of symptomatic patients are comparably staged at diagnosis . |
| 6 | Meantime according to IDC Europa figures , DEC took a 15% — £52.5m — share of the £350m UK workstation market last year , although more than 50% of those workstations it shipped were configured with VMS or OpenVMS , and few if any Alpha-based models would have been included in this total . |
| 7 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 8 | Studies have shown that the recombinant vaccine , which is grown in a culture of baker 's yeast , produces protective levels of antibody in greater than 90% of vaccinated individuals . |
| 9 | By last year nine airlines were carrying more than 90% of domestic passengers in America , compared with 15 airlines in 1984 . |
| 10 | The number of participating maternity units increased from 34 in 1985 to 49 in 1989 ; they covered more than 80% of live births in Brussels and Wallonia . |
| 11 | However , less than 3% of all deaths from lung cancer are thought to be caused by these substances [ 3 ] . |
| 12 | Patients with cancer are seen sooner in most pain clinics ( median 25 days in clinics in teaching hospitals and just 10 days in clinics in district general hospitals ) , but these patients make up less than 3% of new referrals to pain clinics ( patients with cancer are usually treated outwith outpatient clinics ) . |
| 13 | In rats given platelet activating factor , both oedema and leucocyte infiltration were less pronounced and the vacuolisation was observed in less than 25% of acinar cells ( Table II ) . |
| 14 | In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy . |
| 15 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |
| 16 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 17 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 18 | At present about 30% of District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom provide such programmes , but the extent and quality of these programmes is still very variable ; probably less than 10% of eligible patients overall are offered their facilities . |
| 19 | Some authors have described an incidence of chronic atrophic gastritis in more than 65% of all cases of Sjögren 's syndrome . |
| 20 | Less than 20% of primary schools identified a staff development role for any of the agencies contacted . |
| 21 | One of the longest trials in English criminal history ended on Aug. 28 , after 107 days in court , when three of the four defendants in the so-called Guinness scandal case were given prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court , following their conviction on 28 charges relating to an illegal share support scheme involving more than £15,000,000 of covert payments . |
| 22 | No less than 2% of the Russian budget and no less than 6% of local budgets is to be allocated to culture ( although in reality it is unlikely that the State budget , with its huge deficit , will manage more than 0.5% ) . |
| 23 | In contrast , only 3.5% of the District 's classes and less than 6% of enrolled students were in Essex and Norfolk . |
| 24 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 25 | SEVEN schemes in County Durham including the Darlington Cross Town Route are at risk because more than £4.5m of European grants could be blocked . |
| 26 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 27 | All assays routinely included tubes to assess non-specific binding which was typically less than 5% of total counts . |
| 28 | Since it is impossible to guarantee that every potato with a fault can be removed a tolerance of not more than 5% of all faults is permitted . |
| 29 | Wirral City Lands Department has approved more than £250,000-worth of environmental improvements along the Dock Road corridor in Wallasey with the aim of changing the image of the dockside area to attract new investment . |
| 30 | Some elderly residents of John Broadwood House in Bridle Lane , behind Piccadilly Circus , were fortunate to escape injury as the blast , caused by a device containing less than 1lb of high explosives , blew out windows of their homes . |