Example sentences of "to [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 2 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 3 | Ten years ago the price had fallen to perhaps $450 per font but the restrictions were much the same . |
| 4 | TWO of Britain 's top building societies have slashed their mortgage rates to below 5% in an attempt to clear their backlog of repossessed homes . |
| 5 | International petroleum markets viewed the new agreement with considerable scepticism , believing the cuts to be unenforceable , and world prices immediately resumed their fall , to below $18 per barrel . |
| 6 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 7 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 8 | Although chronic diarrhoea ( defined by them as greater than 21 days duration ) occurred most frequently in this age group , this amounted to only 6% of cases — that is , 94% had diarrhoea which lasted for less than 21 days . |
| 9 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 10 | It was discovered that black girls gain 34% more bone density during puberty , compared to only 11% in white girls . |
| 11 | Dr Gilboy calculated that an annual £15 for the western labourer in 1750 had stretched to only £18.75 by 1775 . |
| 12 | Cook puts 86% of Clinton 's total in the probable column compared to only 57% for Bush . |
| 13 | They point to the remarkably slow growth in the share of the non-marketable sector in the value of marketed output , rising from around 31% between 1955 and 1960 to only 33% between 1969 and 1973 . |
| 14 | At the beginning of 1992 , Russian household savings were bigger than those of enterprises ; by the end of the year they were equal to only 18% of what the state-owned enterprises had in banks . |
| 15 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 16 | In principle this is 8m x 8m ( 9.5yd x 9.5yd ) but in practice it may shrink to only 7m x 7m ( 8.3yd x 8.3yd ) in order to fit enough areas in the available space . |
| 17 | People who paid rates amounting to only £200 on a house now have to pay £1 , 200 in poll tax . |
| 18 | However , it would be unwise to rely on the initiatives of local authorities alone , because of the severe financial restrictions under which they operate ( I found out today for example that Edinburgh District Council 's ENTIRE budget for maintainance of paths and bridleways amounts to only £5,000 per year ) , but also because many routes of interest to cyclists coincide with trunk road routes , which are D o T responsibility . |
| 19 | Furthermore , they showed that over 80% of the content words were fixated , compared to only 40% of the function words . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both mutants decrease transcription of the reporter gene to approximately 50% of the non-mutated , wild type DNA values . |
| 22 | As a result of this increase in sales , and caution on the company 's part following financial difficulties during 1990 and 1991 , research and development expenditure has now fallen to approximately 4% of turnover , or £1.5m . |
| 23 | In the ensuing months B. & C. provided further sums amounting to approximately £117m. for Atlantic . |
| 24 | Screening for gastric cancer in Japan has increased the proportion of early gastrc cancers diagnosed to approximately 45% in the screened population . |
| 25 | She is now unable to work and receives benefits , including invalidity benefit , amounting to approximately £90.00 per week . |
| 26 | The broadcasters ' costs up to the end of July 1990 were estimated as £595,000 , equivalent to approximately £20,000 per week . |
| 27 | At 42°C this digestion was reduced to approximately 10% of the total DNA showing only a two-fold temperature-sensitivity of the activity . |
| 28 | Central Government assessments of total basic expenditure needs for Local Authorities in England for 1985/6 ranged from £359 per head of population for Surrey to approximately £717 per head for Islington . |
| 29 | The subsidies will amount to approximately £180 per car , and will be implemented by temporary exemption from automobile tax . |
| 30 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |