Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time . |
| 2 | The pattern of hits and false alarms in the two studies is relatively similar , thus Table 5.6 shows the data grouped from the two studies to increase the number of observations in each cell . |
| 3 | Though precise historical data relating to the mid-1850s is hard to come by , Lee has estimated that before 1880 , there were six or fewer newspaper proprietors in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | The Central Statistical Office has confirmed that census of production data collected under the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification survey will show separate employee statistics for the book publishing sector . |
| 5 | Three trainees were given instruction in geological map preparation and report writing using field data collected during the 1989–90 field season . |
| 6 | SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN Bob Mould In the '80s Bob Mould led the line in Hüsker Dü and frightened pop music to within an inch of its life . |
| 7 | This compares with just over £15m raised for the 1987 election . |
| 8 | The 1991 figure of 585 casualties shows a marked reduction of 65 or 10% compared with the 1990 total of 650 casualties . |
| 9 | The Break-out Orientation Log utilises the data provided by the two calipers and the drift measurement systems of the Dipmeter ( HDT or SHDT ) or the Borehole Geometry Tool ( BGT ) . |
| 10 | The QPO is significant at 98% confidence in the data set with the 1984/32 , 1985/173 and 1985/186 observations . |
| 11 | Data obtained in the 1969 Census ( to which I have had access but which , to my knowledge , remain unpublished ) suggest that only 15% of the population spoke a mother tongue which was not closely related to one of the seven African broadcast languages . |
| 12 | Figure 5.4 Near-infrared image of the area around Topeka , Kansas , produced from data recorded by the Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper . |
| 13 | It forms part of the overall ICI group data published in the 1991 annual report . |
| 14 | The occupational mortality data pertaining to the 1949–53 quinquennium were analysed by Stodes who showed that there were six conditions which caused a 15% or greater excess mortality among coal miners ( Table I ) . |
| 15 | No one knows exactly how many eligible people there are , because the last firm data comes from the 1981 census ; there have been extrapolations from those figures , but inevitably there is an element of guesswork . |
| 16 | The banks accordingly refused to release $600,000,000 promised under a 1988 debt refinancing agreement until agreement was reached with the IMF , and some $2,800 million from Japan , the World Bank and commercial banks was also being withheld . |
| 17 | A further interest payment of $1,600 million due to commercial banks on Sept. 18 was withheld , but following talks in New York in September the creditor banks extended until January 1990 the availability of the $600,000,000 promised under the 1988 agreement . |
| 18 | The figure represents a rise of £848 compared to the 1991 surplus . |
| 19 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 20 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 21 | This compares with an average of 9% achieved in the 1980s , and is lower than reformist economists and provincial leaders had hoped . |
| 22 | Each arch cost £1,000 to build in the 1930s ; a fortune by today 's standards . |
| 23 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 24 | The average reading speed at which comprehension is possible varies from 200–400 words per minute — with the majority of people sticking around the 200 word mark . |
| 25 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 26 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 27 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 28 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 29 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 30 | But this role is by no means confined to the Twelve . |