Example sentences of "many [subord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as 50% of patients admitted to hospital following a successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest will die before discharge , mainly as a result of cardiogenic shock or the consequences of lengthy anoxia . |
| 2 | The writer Jean-Philippe Domecq took up the theme , maintaining that as many as 95% of contemporary works are no more than boring illustrations of even more boring theoretical points . |
| 3 | Mutant oncogenes of the ras family are found in about a third of all cancers and as many as 80% of pancreatic tumours . |
| 4 | Despite the broad nature of the changes , however , the results were perceived by many as change for the sake of change , rather than as the result of the President having found a new formula to deal with the main problems of inflation , the breakdown in government services and the poor state of the economy . |
| 5 | Now surveys show that it is in fact quite common and that as many as 61% of women experience it and suffer a certain amount of discomfort as a result . |
| 6 | In contrast , another survey found that as many as 75% of security breaches are perpetrated by insiders . |
| 7 | The 1986 OPCS survey found that as many as 89% of regular smokers said that they bought cigarettes from shops . |
| 8 | Outside the US , the UK now has the highest number of cellular subscribers anywhere in the world , and by the year 2000 as many as 20% of the UK population are expected to be users . |
| 9 | Thus , structural abnormalities of the retinoblastoma gene have been found in as many as 30% of some forms of leukaemia and lymphoma and mutations of the p53 gene have been reported as an infrequent event in myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia . |
| 10 | Did you know that as many as 82% of mums are concerned about the healthiness of their family 's lifestyle ? |
| 11 | For example , it is surprising that as many as 19% of the top 100 companies provided no notes whatsoever . |
| 12 | This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg , since as many as 90% of cases go unreported , according to Dr Richard Gilbert , the Director of the Food Hygiene Laboratory . |
| 13 | In a recent study as many as 5% of subjects in a group of students and hospital employees were reported as losing bowel control , at least occasionally . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 15 | Last June , Newsweek magazine speculated that as many as 60% of injuries and 9 of the 23 military deaths were caused by ‘ friendly fire ’ . |
| 16 | As many as 40% of all European farmers have such second jobs , the majority maintaining their farms as sources of supplementary income . |
| 17 | A third of all women in Britain now take some form of dietary supplement according to one estimate , and chemicals giant Fisons believes that as many as 40% of the adult population have tried these products at some time . |
| 18 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 19 | As many as 70% of winter visitors may have taken the discount . |
| 20 | As many as 70% of patients presenting with ulceration may have no symptoms . |
| 21 | Some studies indicate strikingly high rates , with avoidant personality disorder developing in as many as 33% of anorexic restricters and borderline personality disorder developing in almost 40% of anorexic bulimic patients . |
| 22 | As many as 94% of the working units provide less than 100 standard man-days of work per year ( or two per week ) . |
| 23 | After every census , the bureau conducts its own internal estimate of how many people it missed : in 1980 it thought it had missed 1.4% of the population , including 5–6% of blacks ( and perhaps as many as 18% of black males ) . |