Example sentences of "fairly high [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further while municipal law can survive a fairly high incidence of order-violation and still fulfil its ordering function , the nature of international conflict is such that comparatively few violations , perhaps only one attempt to resist the lawful force of a world state , might be more than enough to undermine the rationale for the whole edifice of peace law . |
| 2 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 3 | Then there were mixed economies which enjoyed a fairly high standard of living and whose diversified resources included some heavy industry , but where no one branch of the economy predominated . |
| 4 | Vickery points to the distinction between a generic training or a generic profession and the notion that the individual worker should be generic , suggesting that ‘ the concept of the generic in social work is probably only valid at a fairly high level of abstraction ’ ( p. 262 ) . |
| 5 | A useful reference work , although some definitions presuppose a fairly high level of knowledge by the students . |
| 6 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 7 | People here are used to a fairly high level of pain , just as they 're used to a lot of chilli in their food . |
| 8 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 9 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 10 | There should therefore be fairly high levels of mobility in the long run and a more open system of elite mobility than in capitalist society . |