Example sentences of "to [adv] [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was discovered that black girls gain 34% more bone density during puberty , compared to only 11% in white girls . |
| 3 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 4 | Screening for gastric cancer in Japan has increased the proportion of early gastrc cancers diagnosed to approximately 45% in the screened population . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The survey found we pay £42 for a basket of 22 everyday items compared to just £20.40 in Mexico . |
| 7 | Only 40% of the world 's potential arable land was in use in 1975 , and that will have increased to just 50% in 2000 . |
| 8 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 9 | ( The average amount which people would actually have to pay after allowing for relief and benefits would fall to under £175 in Great Britain as a whole . ) |
| 10 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 11 | Unemployment is forecast to rise sharply , up from 4% of the workforce in 1992 to nearly 6% in 1994 . |
| 12 | Time deposits and CDs jumped from 230m. in 1982 to nearly 6bn in 1987 . |
| 13 | The acquisitions — and the cost of converting scores of Greenall pubs into Premier House outlets providing food and with budget accommodation — pushed up the company 's interest charge by 40 per cent to nearly £20million in the year . |
| 14 | Is it therefore better for er a , a parent our parents , our parents to give as a gift the house to both people in order to claim both allowances ? |
| 15 | Remy , which last year acquired the Heidsieck champagne business , has an annual turnover of around £340million which is expected to rise to roughly £450million in the year to next March . |
| 16 | Uzzell is targeting a 25% growth in turnover for wholesale finance , from approximately £45m last year to about $56m in 1993 . |
| 17 | Response rates varied from 98% in 1968–70 to about 90% in subsequent five year spans . |
| 18 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 19 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 20 | A well-made heap will heat rapidly to about 66°C in the first week , the temperature then dropping slowly down to about 29°C after three months . |
| 21 | Calcium supplementation did not influence the solubility of bile acids in the ileu , but it reduced their solubility to about 20% in the colon and faeces . |
| 22 | The percentage would also vary throughout the year from about 10% in the summer to about 50% in the winter . |
| 23 | Updated , that award would come to about £140,500 in terms of the £ in December 1992 . |
| 24 | Temperatures at the bottom , down to 15 m in the deepest , fall to about 1°C in winter . |
| 25 | the risk of a baby being infected by a mother with HIV varies from 49% in some parts of the world , to about 13% in the UK |
| 26 | Despite the limitations of a retrospective study and the heterogeneity of the tissue available for review , the present findings show that over 80% of antral tumours were associated with H pylori in the 1960s although this fell to about 40% in the 1980s . |
| 27 | Like the previous species it grows to about 20cm in the wild , but is more likely to attain half this size in captivity . |
| 28 | State subsidy amounted to almost £1.1bn in the 12 months to 31 March , up from £700m the previous year . |
| 29 | From importing 10% of demand in 1978 the level of imports increased to almost 30% in 1983 . |
| 30 | In terms of value , roughly , that sum in the 1930s was equal to around £1500 in today 's money . |