Example sentences of "[n mass] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 2 | Evidently , the definition has been reduced to 65% of its original length . |
| 3 | Banyan claims some two million Vines users — Unix is less than 10% of its current business . |
| 4 | Type 2 : Semi-specialist machinery which is expected to be productive for ten years and have a residual value of 10% of its original cost . |
| 5 | This week IBM unveiled plans to shed another 10,000 employees — about 4.5 per cent of its US workforce — saving $1billion a year and it will buy back another $4billion-worth of its own shares . |
| 6 | In the U.K. , for example , four fifths of health service employees are women but over 90% of its top decision makers are men . |
| 7 | It costs £6,000 per user , upgrades are £1,500 , and ACT expects that at least 50% of its existing Quasar customers will go that route over the next year . |
| 8 | Firstly , a company would only be able to issue preference shares with limited or no voting rights up to 50% of its issued share capital and , if the preference dividends were not paid for three years , the shares would then acquire full voting rights . |
| 9 | Phasic contractions in the lower oesophageal sphincter , were considered to be present when resting pressure slowly but transiently increased to more than 50% of its basal value . |
| 10 | Some 80% of its 90,000 acres remains relatively untouched and , because of that , supports a large number and a wide range of indigenous species . |
| 11 | During the 24-month experiment the crew produced 80% of its own food , the other 20% coming from seed stock and crops grown and stored in the biosphere before its closure . |
| 12 | Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick . |
| 13 | The Home Office has another intelligence-gathering computer , at the Harmondsworth headquarters of its illegal immigration intelligence unit . |
| 14 | UN officials announced in a communiqué published in Nairobi on July 25 that the organization was to move the headquarters of its Sudanese relief operation from Khartoum to Entebbe , Uganda . |
| 15 | Network Equipment Technologies Inc , Redwood City , California is to buy the 20% of its Adaptive Corp affiliate that it does not already own for about $1.5m in cash and 600,000 new shares . |
| 16 | The monthly contribution of this department ( £5,000 ) , subject to a special machine being introduced into the department at a hire cost of £4,000 per year , would fall by only 20% of its current level as a result of the reduction in the labour force . |
| 17 | Dun expects at least 20% of its 14,000 customers worldwide to downsize their computer operations to Unix systems . |
| 18 | That £2,000 is now worth just £609 , just 29pc of its original value . |
| 19 | I would suggest to you that this must be an extraordinarily sens environmentally sensitive county if it can not afford over fifteen years , to take an extra point one nine percent of its unconstrained land into development . |
| 20 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 21 | Disk drive manufacturer Quantum Corp , Milpitas has opened Asia-Pacific regional sales and marketing headquarters in Singapore ; it also signed a deal with FIC , a manufacturer and distributor of subsystems in China , to distribute Quantum products there ; the Asia-Pacific region accounted for $204m or 19% of its worldwide sales in 1992 . |
| 22 | An expected £1.8m from the Government for the holding of prisoners in police cells had now been reduced to £1.3m meaning that Cheshire has lost £500,000 of its expected income . |
| 23 | 75% of its parliamentary stores use actuality . |
| 24 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 25 | In a year of stable and high sales for the shop , Christmas , which represents 30% of its overall turnover , was ‘ particularly strong , with a significant increase on previous years , both in turnover and by unit ’ . |
| 26 | These ulcers heal spontaneously and rapidly so that seven days after their induction the ulcer area was usually reduced to about 30% of its initial size . |
| 27 | Quorum also found 80% to 85% of its potential audience are interested simply in running off-the-shelf Mac packages of Word and Excel : this is what Quorum is currently polishing up and will be showing . |
| 28 | Quorum also found 80% to 85% of its potential audience are interested in running just off-the-shelf Mac packages of Word and Excel which is what Quorum is currently polishing up and will be showing . |
| 29 | The company is now directly involved in 85% of its overseas distribution compared with 25% five years ago . |
| 30 | WEAR Valley 's newly-launched Wear Fit Club has attracted more than 3,500 members more than 50pc of its 6,000 target since enrolment started on Monday . |