Example sentences of "a [det] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 There are emerging , however , a few bona fide cases where licensing is the only means of making any sales and where it is in our general interest to be in a market in anticipation of that market situation easing at a later date .
2 The two presenters run through the sequence of events and camera angles , practising a few boisterous ' announcements and listening to snatches of some of the show 's records .
3 So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues .
4 Activated ( CD25 + ) lymphoctyes expressing interleukin ( IL ) -2 receptors were increased in lamina propria , usually subjacent to basal lamina , although a few IL-2R + intrapithelial lymhocytes found , other IL-2R + cells were deemed to be macrophages ( CD68 + ) .
5 Finally , the TCR- β mutant thymus contains a few CD4 + SP and CD8 + SP cells , of which between half and two-thirds are γ T cells ( data not shown ) .
6 Only a few CD15 + cells ( neutrophils ) were observed in lamina propria throughout and populations did not differ significantly between either group .
7 These differences in athletic performance might not be very large , a matter of only a few per cent , but for world-class athletes , the difference between a world record and a mediocre performance can be only fractional .
8 Arsenic is very volatile and was unobtainable by ancient smelting techniques , but arsenic minerals commonly occur in association with copper ores and an alloy with a few per cent can be obtained by smelting these .
9 Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point .
10 A typical basalt contains a few per cent of phenocryst minerals , but in an andesite phenocrysts may form as much as 50 per cent volume of the rock .
11 Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface .
12 While lesser villages grabbed a few per cent here and there , le Mesnil-sur-Oger was denied that one vital per cent required for full grand cru status .
13 Fuji Xerox Co Ltd plans to increase imports of parts to take advantage of the high yen in order to cut domestic production costs , Reuter reports from Tokyo : in the long term , it plans to raise the ratio to 30% from just a few per cent but the company is not rushing to achieve this as its export ratio of total products is low at around 20% and the high value of the yen is not severely damaging business .
14 Total French expenditure is only a few per cent of total US space expenditure .
15 Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ .
16 In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells .
17 Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal .
18 An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates .
19 Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out .
20 To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time .
21 Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery .
22 A union spokesman said a two and a half per cent pay offer failed to reflect the record profits made by and the huge improvements in productivity at the plant .
23 All pay awards are , have been settled at one and a half per cent , and I do n't propose to go into any of the the detail .
24 That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase .
25 Overall , if one aggregates those three things , the level of settlement for the county was down thirty- one per cent on the year , compared with a national total , which was also in distress of fourteen and a half per cent down .
26 We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent .
27 We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent .
28 Yes that 's why I 've the increase of twelve and a half per cent on it .
29 and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them .
30 You know , one and a half per cent .
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