Example sentences of "of [n mass] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear-drive V8 is quick , with a top speed of 147mph and 0–60mph acceleration of 8.3secs . |
| 2 | Their view is that if the office furniture division were sold for £23m ( the amount of capital employed in the business ) , the group 's borrowings of £49m and gearing of 57% would be nearly halved ; that Athena 's high operational gearing offers scope for cost cutting ; that an expected upturn in the UK small business sector would benefit Ryman ; and that Dillons , the group 's core business , has performed relatively well , considering that around one-third of its sales are made in the difficult terrain of central London . |
| 3 | Alliance & Leicester ( Isle of Man ) ( 0624 663566 ) provides Manximum Instant Access , which has a minimum investment of £10 and interest from 4% gross ; Manximum 90 day account which has a minimum investment of £1,000 and interest beginning at 6% ; and Manximum Investment Bond , a 12 month gross interest account with a monthly income option paying 8.5% a year on a minimum of £10,000 . |
| 4 | IPTG was then added to a final concentration of 0.1mM and induction followed at 26°C for a further 2 hours . |
| 5 | Top speed of 132mph and 0–60mph in 8.0secs are competitive but cheaper 405 SRi is better value . |
| 6 | The sale of sheep and barley made up 35 per cent of the estate of Richard Jerard , a Chepping Wycombe pewterer and brazier , the residue including a few more animals , a little grain and hay , and an iron harrow , although another metal worker there owned nothing but the tools of his trade . |
| 7 | The grazing of sheep and store cattle was the main occupation , although in the course of the sixteenth century dairying was to assume increasing importance . |
| 8 | The funniest things were the shoats , a mixture of sheep and goat , grazing on the scrubby volcanic land . |
| 9 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 10 | A proposal to build more barracks was rejected by Parliament in 1739 on the grounds that ‘ the people of this kingdom have been taught to associate the idea of barracks and slavery ’ . |
| 11 | The Ediacaran deposits in Australia which contain the remains of jellyfish and sea pens also preserve impressions of segmented worms . |
| 12 | Summer and winter temperatures in the Canadian interior are generally 0 — 22°C and -10-28°C , respectively , but summer maxima of 40°C and winter minima of -40°C have been recorded locally . |
| 13 | When the travel allowance of £60 and book allowance of £246 is deducted £894 is left to be divided between the 37 weeks of the academic year ( 3 terms plus short vacations ) . |
| 14 | Although the company ended the year with net debt of £94m and gearing of 35% , it did generate £240m cash from operations . |
| 15 | Although the company ended the year with net debt of £94m and gearing of 35% , it did generate £240m cash from operations . |
| 16 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 17 | At a portal venous inflow of <20% , the proceedure had a specificity of 100% and sensitivity of 90% in diagnosing portal vein occlusion . |
| 18 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 19 | The 1990 budget provided for expenditure of $1,356,500,000 and revenue of $1,001,400,000 . |
| 20 | Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody , with a perinuclear pattern on immunofluorescent staining has been reported to have a sensitivity of 65% and specificity of 100% in primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 21 | The final communiqué of the Turnberry meeting noted that the ministers had instructed negotiators at the CFE talks to pursue " new approaches " , particularly on the numbers of aircraft and armour and on verification , in order to speed up progress towards a CFE agreement in 1990 . |
| 22 | On 20 September 1941 , the Ministry of Aircraft and Production placed a contract for the production of Horsa gliders with a number of firms , and Wolverton Works , together with three other firms , formed a Wing Group for the production of outer mainplanes and detachable bays , the others being Messrs Cravens Ltd , Railway Carriage & Wagon Works , Sheffield , ( holding the Group Chairmanship ) ; LNE Railway , Doncaster & York ; Wolseley Motors Ltd , Birmingham . |
| 23 | In the latest year , InterCity just scraped a surplus of £2m on turnover of £900m and Network SouthEast slipped back to a £180m deficit , reflecting a drop of 8% in commuter journeys into central London . |
| 24 | LEFT Computers and other electronic devices are now essential tools in archaeology for handling the vast amounts of data that fieldwork produces . |
| 25 | Onboard seismic and navigation data processing enabled early interpretation of data and selection of the well location within weeks of the data being acquired . |
| 26 | Optimal methods for statistical analysis of data and design of breeding programmes are investigated using extensive microcomputing facilities and specialised programs . |
| 27 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
| 28 | Labstation , a PC-based product , which improves the automation and management of data and method from laboratory instruments was also launched . |
| 29 | Both a master dictionary ( or repository ) and data dictionary store meta data , definitions of data and processing , though the repository — a marketing term invented by IBM — includes the ability to store CASE objects as well as simpler definitions from 4GL or database dictionaries . |
| 30 | Usually , failure events are analysed , evaluated and interpreted by merging highly diverse sources of data and information ( i.e. analog/digital signals , logical variables and test outcomes , text from verbal reports , inspection images , information from manuals , etc. ) with experience knowledge . |