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

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1 The numbers within the Council Tax Control Team have been based on a pro rata of case load plus a 20% increase for personal elements less a nominal number to reflect the transfer of routine functions to the operational teams .
2 A grande dame of a grandmother , Mrs St Maugham , hires an enigmatic companion , Miss Madrigal ( such names ! ) , to look after her troubled teenage granddaughter .
3 By this stage it is possible — the idea is corroborated to some extent by Castro 's actions in December 1959 and January 1960 — see pages 72–3 — that he had already taken the decision to embark on a campaign to present the USSR with a fait accompli of ‘ socialist ’ reforms to enlist their total support .
4 You merely perpetuate a status quo of constant warfare .
5 Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 )
6 Less than half a per cent of union membership decide issue
7 Using acid phosphatase as a lysosomal marker enzyme , values for latency and supernatant enzyme ( calculated as a per cent of control values and expressed as means ( SEM ) ) were as follows : latency — 143.6 ( 38.7 ) % ; supernatant enzyme — 96.4 ( 2.8 ) % ( four experiments ) .
8 Qualifications for the per cent club , which was launched by the Prince of Wales in nineteen eighty six , is the contribution of no less than half a per cent of pre-tax , U K profits , or one per cent of dividends to the community .
9 When the government makes an award it normally provides all but about a quarter of a per cent of the extra needed . ’
10 I remember when a work like Bartók 's Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celeste was thought quite impossible , and we now play it like a Concerto Grosso of Handel !
11 There is a risk of a blemish being left er on the name of er a c er of a defendant of a rape case even when he is acquitted .
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