Example sentences of "and [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Overall only 4% claimed that their jobs required less skill , and only 4% of women in lower-grade white-collar jobs claimed to have been deskilled . |
2 | What 's more , if you know at least nine other stamp collectors , you can join as a group member for even less — just £2.20 for two years and only £3.50 for five years ! |
3 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
4 | • 79% wanted their baby at a local hospital and only 8% at home . |
5 | Although only 10×20m , it encompassed nine trees , two of them about 7m high , and only 2m from the back of the house . |
6 | In a recent study , 10% of Barro Colorado Island was used in sampling and only 80% of the known flora was found . |
7 | When the Association was founded in 1957 , it had no paid staff and only £10 in its bank account . |
8 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
9 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
10 | IBM Corp 's vast personal computer contract with the former Soviet Ministry of Education ended early with just 15,000 machines installed in schools and only 75% of those paid for , IBM Europe chief Renato Riverso told the Wall Street Journal ; he also said that IBM has yet to receive its first payment on its $150m contract to provide Aeroflot with a modern reservations system . |
11 | These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge . |
12 | A similar comparison of 1984 and 1992 child benefit rates , taking into account the increase in earnings , shows that the benefit from next April should be £12.55p per child ; instead it will be £9.65p for the first child and only £7.80p for each subsequent child . |
13 | The Swordtails and Mollies are five months old , and only 4cm in length . |
14 | Only 5% of patients were competent , and only 12% of the incompetent had living wills . |
15 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
16 | Nowadays it is much less common and only 25% of new cases are found in children , ie the onset of the disease has been greatly delayed . |
17 | • 41% wanted care at G.P. surgery , 34% in their own home and only 16% in hospital . |
18 | However 68% of the House of Clergy surveyed said they would vote in favour , and only 66% of members in the House of Laity were for . |
19 | In comparison , 60% of nursery-users and only 48% of childminder-users felt the same way . |
20 | Most British youngsters feel it is a waste of time , and only 35% of 17-year-olds are still in full-time study . |
21 | Though £80m of this was swapped into fixed rate money recently , this was still at what the company calls ‘ usurious ’ rates and only £60m of this total was borrowed at interest rates significantly below the high levels of today . |
22 | However , the prevalence of gastric adenocarcinoma does not exceed 1–3% in patients with pernicious anaemia , and only 2% of gastric adenocarcinomas are associated with pernicious anaemia . |
23 | As Table 16 , below , shows , whereas not one serial and only 2% of defective monographs were categorised as ‘ Fragile ’ , 18% of defective newspapers fell into this category , and while around eight out of ten defective monographs and serials ( 81% and 78% respectively ) showed sufficiently little deterioration to be categorised as ‘ Poor ’ , only six out of ten newspapers ( 62% ) could be so described . |
24 | In contrast , none of our patients with Crohn 's disease showed a type 1 pattern of staining and only 33% of ulcerative colitis patients were positive . |
25 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
26 | In 1985 the Hong Kong government , faced with 350,000 vehicles and only 1,227km of roads ( an unequalled density ) decided on an experiment with electronic toll collection . |
27 | There were many benefits , from a variety of sources , and only 14% of part-time farmers interviewed said they received none . |
28 | Today , following years of civil war , it remains a shadow of its former self , with its buildings devastated and only 10% of the farm 's 1000 acres under cultivation . |
29 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
30 | A similar balance was identified in Meijer BV where 90% of all telexes received were in English and only 10% in German . |