Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DTB 's total contract volume in 1990 was approximately 6.7 million . |
| 2 | These outcomes can be either positive or negative , although , obviously , an individual 's total life experience will usually be characterised by a mixture of both . |
| 3 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 4 | Augustus John 's ‘ leonine personality ’ was well known , as was Wilson Steer 's total life devotion to his ‘ absorbing passion for painting , ’ 12 or Sickert 's arrogant self-belief — all artists Walker admired as the best and aligned herself with . |
| 5 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 6 | Rivers , lakes , soils and the atmosphere , the obvious sources of freshwater , contain about 200 000 cubic kilometres of water — less than one-fiftieth of 1 per cent of the world 's total water supply . |
| 7 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 8 | It was reported that more than IR£10 million has been permanently removed from the Group 's total cost base in comparison with overheads in 1991/92 . |
| 9 | He found the city 's total welfare bill amounted to $162 per citizen — as against an average of $174 elsewhere in New York state , and similar sums even in troubled cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles . |
| 10 | The group 's total portfolio investments amounted to £2,596m at 31 March 1992 : equity shares came to £1,145m , preference shares £228m , loan investments £1,088m , investment properties £16m , associated undertakings £85m and investment leases £34m . |
| 11 | In the same period , Inteco predict that multimedia software will expand its share of Europe 's total PC software market . |
| 12 | world 's total fossil fuel reserves . |
| 13 | According to an IAEA report in January 1990 , the total number of operating nuclear electricity plants worldwide stood at 435 , accounting for nearly 17 per cent of the world 's total electricity production . |
| 14 | Vevay 's Total Colour Kit is a complete make-up collection in one ! |
| 15 | The total land area affected by the accord was estimated at up to 2,000,000 sq km , some 20 per cent of Canada 's total land mass , stretching from the borders of Manitoba to the North Pole . |
| 16 | This is based on a detailed survey of 687 km 2 , which is c. 6 per cent of Jamaica 's total land area . |
| 17 | It is important to note that 33% of the sound 's total land area will be protected . |
| 18 | Since independence in 1980 some 52,000 peasant farmers had been resettled on 3,000,000 hectares purchased from the 4,000-strong white farming community , but whites still owned 12,000,000 hectares ( 40 per cent of Zimbabwe 's total land area ) . |
| 19 | Rural land now accounts for 85 per cent of the country 's total land area of 10.597 million ha . |
| 20 | Bearing eloquent witness to the strength of this strategy , NEC 's total computer sales in 1981 surpassed those of Hitachi to make it second only to Fujitsu among Japanese makers . |
| 21 | Yet haemophiliacs now comprise more than 60% of Japan 's total AIDS population . |
| 22 | A 1989 report for Unicef estimates that Mozambique 's total GDP losses from 1980 to 1988 were US$13.5 billion at 1988 prices . |
| 23 | In RX , however , cultural change was an integral element of the company 's total process change strategy . |
| 24 | France 's total wine exports declined for the first time in a decade last year . |
| 25 | The finding is that roughly 25 per cent of Italy 's total dog population of around 3.5 million is made up of animals which , if they are not all precisely strays , are at least ‘ free-ranging ’ and not under immediate human supervision . |
| 26 | In this context Cuba , with its exceptionally high dependence on imported oil ( which accounts for approaching two-thirds of the island 's total energy consumption ) and its sophisticated modern refining capacity ( installed by Shell , Esso and Texaco ) , must have looked a promising market for Soviet oil . |
| 27 | Domestic energy accounts for one-third of each person 's total energy consumption ; the other two-thirds are consumed in transport , agriculture and industry . |
| 28 | However , a report submitted by the Department of Environment to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the following month , suggested that the UK 's total energy consumption could be cut by as much as 60 per cent over the next 15 years through energy conservation . |
| 29 | Making electricity is , in fact , the main use of the primary fuels — accounting for a third of the world 's total energy input — the main fuels used being coal ( 29% ) , oil ( 26% ) , hydro ( 22% ) , gas ( 13% ) and nuclear ( 10% ) . |
| 30 | The western portion of Negros island ( Negros Occidental ) in the central Philippines , also known as ‘ sugarlandia ’ , is renowned for its abundant sugar production , which accounts for 65% of the country 's total sugar harvest . |