Example sentences of "[no cls] [prep] [art] country [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who live around me in Grand Lodge 's two largest provinces , East and West Lancashire ( where 15% of the country 's 320,000 masons live ) , would be horrified to read of their Craft 's occult and pagan links . |
| 2 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 3 | ‘ Only 11 per cent of the country 's 18-year-olds pass three A-levels , ’ says Michael Duffy , head of the King Edward VI School , in Morpeth , Northumberland . |
| 4 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 5 | From Vienna , where the famous woods were now dying , came reports that 53 per cent of the country 's population were more worried about the death of the nation 's trees than any other factor , personal or economic . |
| 6 | Copper mining was responsible for 66 per cent of the country 's gross commercial product , 60 per cent of government revenues and 95 per cent of export earnings ( Quick 1977 : 381 ) . |
| 7 | All the rest of the Norwegian types are now considered extinct as separate breeds or are rare : 98 per cent of the country 's cattle are now of the Norwegian Red type , which can be solid red or red with some white . |
| 8 | The old breeds which were absorbed by the MRY included the red pied Hollander of North Holland which a century ago made up 7 per cent of the country 's herd ; the red-and-white Zeeland at 4 per cent ( a Zeeland type is shown in Paul Potter 's painting , The Young Bull ) ; the Drentish from Over-yssel ( 1.5 per cent ) , which was very similar to the Ayrshire of Scotland ; and the red-pied dairy Furnes-Ambacht of Flanders . |
| 9 | Earth Report ( 1988 ) , for example , states that in Pakistan more than 65 per cent of the country 's 150 000 km 2 of irrigated land are thus affected ; in Egypt 35 per cent of farmland has salinity and waterlogging problems and in Iraq and India the situation is similarly acute . |
| 10 | Salinisation and waterlogging are also creating environmental degradation in Iraq where some 50 per cent of the country 's 36 000 km 2 of irrigated land is affected . |
| 11 | Wood shortages for both uses are now widespread , not least because many rainforest areas outside the reserves , which in the pre-1960 period supplied about 50 per cent of the country 's timber output , are now exhausted . |
| 12 | In 1981 , nuclear power produced nearly 100 TWh of electricity , or 40 per cent of the country 's total output . |
| 13 | In the US , the defence industries account for 44 per cent of the country 's consumption of the metal . |
| 14 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 15 | It 's hoped that wind power will eventually provide up to 20 per cent of the country 's energy needs . |
| 16 | Even at independence in 1961 , probably not more than ten per cent of the country 's African population could read and write . |
| 17 | What makes this an economic problem , and not simply a nationality problem , is the fact that the declining areas possess 85 per cent of the country 's industry , 82 per cent of its electricity , and equivalent proportions of related infrastructure . |
| 18 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 19 | Nearly two-thirds the work force opted to work outside the law , producing a hidden uncounted 29 per cent of the country 's GNP . |
| 20 | Even in the years immediately following the Second World War , when its manufacturing capacity was weak by any standards , the UK 's net exports of manufactured goods ( the surplus of sales of manufactures after deducting imports of such goods ) was 8.6 per cent of the country 's output ( GDP ) while net imports of primary products were 11.4 per cent of GDP . |
| 21 | The figures on schooling and educational background are particularly revealing , not just because they disclose that roughly 90 per cent of the country 's judges received a public school education , or that over three quarters had attended either Oxford or Cambridge universities , but because they also confirm that this social profile has remained virtually unaltered over the last four decades or more . |
| 22 | In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty per cent of the country 's villages . |
| 23 | Paranapanema , a mining company which accounts for 60 per cent of the country 's mineral exports , is trying to gain control over all the gold mines in the Yanomami territory , and dozens of other companies are seeking mining concessions . |
| 24 | Following a referendum in 1980 , Sweden committed itself to phasing out its 12 nuclear power stations by the year 2010 ( even through nuclear power provides 45 per cent of the country 's electricity ) . |
| 25 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 26 | The Mahaweli project — the largest foreign aid programme to date — will affect one third of the country 's land mass and lead to the relocation of 10 per cent of the country 's population . |
| 27 | The mine 's formal closure was a severe blow to the country 's economy as it was estimated to provide up to 20 per cent of government revenue and some 40 per cent of the country 's export earnings ; in formulating the 1990 budget , the government had assumed the mine 's reopening by the end of 1989 . |
| 28 | On completion the giant hydro-electric project would render productive 76,835 sq km of arid and semi-arid land — nearly 10 per cent of the country 's area — covering six provinces . |
| 29 | The state would purchase 93 per cent of the country 's fertile maize- and tobacco-growing acreage , which generated 42 per cent of the country 's foreign currency . |
| 30 | The state would purchase 93 per cent of the country 's fertile maize- and tobacco-growing acreage , which generated 42 per cent of the country 's foreign currency . |