Example sentences of "of [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data for an intensive sheep croft of 3 ha , with a share in 21 ha of improved common grazing , indicate a net income of only £868 from sheep production , as compared with £5,460 from weaving 2.5 tweeds per 4U-hour week . |
| 2 | This compares with a small bowel resection rate of only 4% at five years among 116 patients having a proctocolectomy for Crohn 's colitis in this unit . |
| 3 | The proposals would cause disproportionate damage to the Legal Aid Scheme — cutting the number of legal aid certificates by 30% in order to make a saving of only 4% of the total costs of the Scheme . |
| 4 | However , it has also recently suggested a tag of only $1,000 for the server . |
| 5 | However , it has also recently suggested a tag of only $1,000 for the server . |
| 6 | To bring a level of order and modesty to Fleck 's life Norwich took the unprecedented step of paying him an allowance of only £29 per week and preserving the remainder of his salary to pay off the debts . |
| 7 | This is reflected in half-time profits pegged back to £37.1m , a rise of only £3.7m over the last six months . |
| 8 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |
| 9 | The store plans to cater for about 10 trainees at a time at a cost of only £29.95 for three hours . |
| 10 | The Warner Bugs Bunny Club will be showing films and cartoons , including old favourites and new releases such as Back to the Future III and Babar the Movie , from about 9.30am at a cost of only £1.50 per person . |
| 11 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 12 | Last month 's underlying decline of only $142m in the reserves seems an especially unrealistic guide to the actual level of intervention by the Bank of England — in concert with other central banks — to depress the dollar , and also — on its own account — to defend the weakening pound . |
| 13 | It has been estimated by the CBI that in the period 1979–91 an average of only 40% of firms were working at full capacity . |
| 14 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 15 | It was fitted with two Ne–20 jets of 1,047lbs thrust each and , being underpowered , managed a top speed ( without bomb load ) of only 452mph with a range of 553 miles . |
| 16 | For example , a 20% fall in profits can be translated into a fall of only 10% in the PRP pool . |
| 17 | He discovered from Board of Trade figures for 1907 that agricultural earnings varied from an average of below 16s. per week in East Anglia and Oxfordshire to above 20s. per week in the northern industrial counties , in Middlesex and industrial South Wales , although he found ‘ thousands ’ of families living on earnings below 14s. 11d. per week , sometimes as little as 10s . |
| 18 | After only six months the investor would be entitled to receive a bank loan of perhaps 72p per share , normally secured on the shares . |
| 19 | On average each desktop publishing software vendor produces a new and improved version of the software every eighteen months at an incremental cost of perhaps 20% of the original cost-effectively free in real terms . |
| 20 | The Antares 130 is no exception , with a six-cylinder unit of exactly 6,000cc in capacity and with a bore and stroke of 1005 and 115.5mm . |
| 21 | The aims of Reflexology are : to relax stress and tension , the cause of approximately 75% of today 's diseases and ailments ; to relieve blocked nerve impulses that end in the feet , to improve circulation , for it is at the feet that the blood , as it is pumped around the body , changes direction . |
| 22 | ‘ In the current year , is spite of satisfactory carpet division trading , Stoddard Sekers ’ results have been undermined by a rise of approximately 75% in Chinese raw silk prices . |
| 23 | Using this argument , a ratio of general government expenditure on goods and services of approximately 32% of National Income would appear to be the most appropriate measure . |
| 24 | A gentle ‘ D ’ profile facilitates comfort and positive note location , aided by a slim and consistent depth of approximately 22mm along the neck 's entire length . |
| 25 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 26 | Cell accommodation is divided into single or two-storey blocks , each comprising 60 to 80 cells of approximately 2m in width and 3 to 4m long , with a barred , ‘ gate-type ’ door at each end . |
| 27 | Note that the low-pass , m-derived T-section corresponding to m = 0.3 has inductance 0.15L in each series arm compared with 0.5L in each series arm of the prototype and capacitance 0.3C in series with inductance of approximately 0.76L in the shunt arm compared with just capacitance C in the shunt arm of the prototype . |
| 28 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 29 | ‘ We believe the development will cost somewhere in the region of £450,000 with a unit cost per flat of approximately £25,000 to £30,000 . |
| 30 | De Benedetti cited a payment of approximately $7m to Giuseppe Lo Moro for a contract to equip the Italian state Postal Service . |