Example sentences of "[no cls] [prep] [art] world ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest official gold hoarder by far is America , which holds 27.9% of the world 's central-bank gold reserves . |
| 2 | The Middle East — in effect , the — contains 66.3% of the world 's oil reserves . |
| 3 | This is 0.01% of the world 's total stock . |
| 4 | Penrhyn is now the largest quarry in the world , and 30,000 tonnes of rock a week are gouged out of the Carneddi mountains — 6 per cent of the world 's slate output . |
| 5 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |
| 6 | Already over 60 per cent of the world 's children are immunised . |
| 7 | But at a 72-nation conference in the Netherlands yesterday , Britain , the United States , Japan and the Soviet Union , which between them emit 50 per cent of the world 's carbon dioxide , blocked a proposed freeze on emissions of the gas by the year 2000 and a 20 per cent reduction by 2005 . |
| 8 | Under threat are the world 's drylands , which are said to constitute about 35 per cent of the world 's land area and support some 850 million people . |
| 9 | Supposing we had grown to know and love nuclear power ( as the French seem to ) , would we now be seeing it expanding rapidly from what the International Atomic Energy Agency claims is its present provision of 16 per cent of the world 's electricity to 25 per cent or more ? |
| 10 | With on-site inspections , seals , analysis of materials , electronic surveillance and satellite links they cover some 95 per cent of the world 's nuclear installations outside the five nuclear weapon states — Britain , France , the Soviet Union and the United States , which all allow safeguards monitoring in a few of their civil installations , and China , which has signed a safeguards agreement but has not yet had a single inspection . |
| 11 | Some 40 per cent of the world 's population depends for drinking water , irrigation and hydro-electric power on 214 river systems shared by two or more countries . |
| 12 | There are numerous varieties of mustards from around the world , although Dijon in France is acknowledged as the mecca of the trade and is still said to produce almost 50 per cent of the world 's mustard . |
| 13 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 14 | Yellowfin tuna taken inside the ETP make up about 8 per cent of the world 's tuna catch . |
| 15 | By 1959 , its wants took care of 60 per cent of the world 's oil production . |
| 16 | The gap must be narrowed between the rich countries of the world and the poorer countries where 70 per cent of the world 's people live on only 30 per cent of its income . |
| 17 | In the West although we are only 20 per cent of the world 's 3,000 million we have 90 per cent of the world 's income , 90 per cent of its gold reserves , 95 per cent of its scientific knowledge , 70 per cent of its meat and 80 per cent of its protein . ’ |
| 18 | In the West although we are only 20 per cent of the world 's 3,000 million we have 90 per cent of the world 's income , 90 per cent of its gold reserves , 95 per cent of its scientific knowledge , 70 per cent of its meat and 80 per cent of its protein . ’ |
| 19 | They concluded that a conflict involving only I per cent of the world 's supply of nuclear weapons would produce enough dust to block out the rays of the sun . |
| 20 | Zaire supplies about 51 per cent of the world 's cobalt , followed by neighbouring Zambia ( 14 per cent ) and the former Soviet bloc countries ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 21 | With 98 per cent of the world 's sweet potato crop grown in developing regions and consumed locally , the key beneficiaries of the modified potatoes will be the farmers and consumers of the developing world . |
| 22 | Rivers , lakes , soils and the atmosphere , the obvious sources of freshwater , contain about 200 000 cubic kilometres of water — less than one-fiftieth of 1 per cent of the world 's total water supply . |
| 23 | By 1949 the world 's airlines had carried over twenty million paying passengers , by 1956 the figure had reached over sixty million and it was estimated that 90 per cent of the world 's land surface could be reached by the traveller . |
| 24 | Oil shale was also called ‘ boghead coal ’ , and for a time Scotland supplied ninety per cent of the world 's shale oil output . |
| 25 | Some 12 per cent of the world 's cultivated land is irrigated , of which more than half is affected to some extent by these problems which inevitably lead to a reduction in crop productivity , the very factor that such schemes were established to increase salinisation and waterlogging are particularly significant in arid and semiarid regions where irrigation is necessary for agriculture , and while they are important in developed nations , they are fast becoming major environmental problems in many developing nations . |
| 26 | According to World resources 1988–1989 ( World Resources Institute 1988 ) , 0.6 per cent of the world 's tropical moist forests are cleared annually on average , with similar values for all three of the major tropical rainforest regions . |
| 27 | Greater affluence and improved air travel have also encouraged an increase in tourism to such an extent that it is now the world 's third largest industry and accounts for c. 12 per cent of the world 's GNP ( Geofile No 118 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources . |
| 29 | A ‘ close-look ’ satellite would cost as much again , The whole bill , says Bortzmeyer , amounts to just one per cent of the world 's current spending on its war machines . |
| 30 | The American firm accounts for some 60 per cent of the world 's annual sales of computers and has a turnover around $30000 million . |