Example sentences of "[adv prt] [n mass] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision to lay off 10% of the work force tells the old story of the drone worker . |
| 2 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 3 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 4 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 5 | The Japanese government is putting up 90% of the funds , but 14 private institutions are taking part , including NEC Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 6 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 7 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 8 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 9 | Persistent and casual truants — so categorised by headteachers — made up 4% of the school roll in November and 5% in June . |
| 10 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 11 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 12 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 13 | NWD snaps up 15% of the market , Hewlett-Packard and DEC have 17% apiece , IBM lags behind at 14% , while Network Computing Devices Inc leads the field with 25% . |
| 14 | Of the 169 companies listed , five make up 85% of the value of the composite index . |
| 15 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 16 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 17 | Their rural cousins , who still make up 75% of the population , scratch a living from the soil . |
| 18 | IBM 's desktop RS/6000s clocked up $470m of the $1,000m , other workstations $360m , with deskside machines taking $160m and rack-mounts $1m. 36% of sales were direct , 34% came through value-added resellers and 30% from other IBM agents : the company projects 1993 figures at 40% , 30% and 30% through these channels respectively . |
| 19 | The reorganisation , which is likely to take seven weeks , will result in the food and drink section taking up 45pc of the floor space at the expense of the textiles section . |
| 20 | The Community Action Trust put up £5,000 of the money . |
| 21 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 22 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 23 | The weft , which makes up 60% of the material , consists of pure cotton thread , while the warp , the other 40% , is nylon thread . |
| 24 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 25 | When a Jakarta bureaucrat decided in the early 1980s that Indonesia should develop a steel industry , Mr Liem was ‘ encouraged ’ to put up 40% of the $800m cost of the Krakatau Steel project . |
| 26 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 27 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |
| 28 | Director Charles Hurst has claimed Trafalgar House had held back £120,000 of the contract price as well as the sponsorship money . |