Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Stirling 's final plan was for his force to embark in five Bristol Bombay aircraft of 216 Squadron on the night of 16 November and drop near their targets . |
| 2 | A median of 118.6 µmol/hour of salivary bicarbonate was swalloed ( 95% CI 63.5–206.2 ) , accounting for about 25% of all bicarbonate within the oesophageal segment ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 3 | An open fire needs an air entry opening with a free area of at least 50% of the fire 's throat area , while rooms container other solid fuel or oil-burning appliances must have openings totalling 550sq mm per kilowatt of rated output above the first 5kW . |
| 4 | Other than 174 billion cu.metres of natural gas under the Po Valley Italy has little or no indigenous fuel resources . |
| 5 | Although , as shown in Figures 4–6 , above , the proportion of ‘ initial failures ’ was relatively small , with none recorded in the case of material issued from the Advocates ' Library , and with only 4% and 3% of all deliveries from the Main Building and the Annexe falling into this category , they nevertheless merit close attention , since delays in the provision of items which are in fact available on the shelves can be a considerable source of irritation for both readers and members of staff . |
| 6 | Passions gradually subsided in Little Rock , and elsewhere , but the progress of school integration remained very slow : 10 years later only about 10% of black children in the South attended desegregated schools . |
| 7 | Very small schools ( 50 children or less ) accounted , in 1987–8 , for around 10% of primary schools in the United Kingdom , but the proportion varied greatly from region to region . |
| 8 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 9 | It is estimated that there has been about 1000km of lateral movement along the fault system over the past 25 Ma . |
| 10 | In London , it was a rather different story , since the literature available needed discrimination , much of it being historical and iconographic , establishing data of little interest to the art student . |
| 11 | Computer-held data of previous inspections in the area provides an otherwise unobtainable assessment of the strength of competition in the hotel 's catchment area . |
| 12 | In January , for the first time since April 1985 , fewer than 50% of new apartments in the greater Tokyo area were sold ; Daikyo , Japan 's leading apartment-block developer , had a nationwide sales rate of only 47% . |
| 13 | They are generally much smaller than mainstream schools : 83% of special schools in the United Kingdom have 100 pupils or fewer ; 99% have 200 or fewer ( 1987–8 figures ) . |
| 14 | A bold new claim , bandied about with some confidence by those in the know — those who have studied the demographics , who foresee that 80% of new jobs in the next five years will be taken by women . |
| 15 | Furthermore 80% of all deaths in the inducible group were instantaneous and in 63% ventricular tachycardia was documented . |
| 16 | English is predominant ; varying between 70% — 80% of all use of the foreign language . |
| 17 | Hamburger outlets are by far the most important , representing almost 80% of total turnover in the fast food market . |
| 18 | A survey of industrial guides , directories , etc. , enabled the present author to calculate some sort of employment statistics for the mid-1980s for some 80% of identifiable establishments on the Chirton Estate , including all of the larger plants . |
| 19 | The survey , sponsored by Pannell Kerr Forster , the East Midlands Tourist Board ( EMTB ) and Nottingham Polytechnic showed that 63% of all hotels in the region believed the UBR had a detrimental effect on business . |
| 20 | At the time of the fire , government health officials poured the milk from cows grazing across 500 sq.km of Cumbrian land into the sea . |
| 21 | International Business Machines Corp and IBM Credit Corp appear to be seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market , Reuter reports from New York ; the loans are said to be being arranged by Credit Suisse and syndicated to a group of relationship banks , each of which has been asked to commit around $500m . |
| 22 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 23 | The Block comprised nearly 96% of all expenditure within the Secretary of State 's responsibility in 1989–90 . |
| 24 | According to some estimates , ICI accounts for more than 20% of civilian R&D in the UK . |
| 25 | Overseas investment by UK fund managers has jumped from about 8% to 20% of total assets in the ten years to 1990 . |
| 26 | Novell Inc says it expects its new NetWare 4.0 to represent 20% of total revenues in the first 12 months of shipment , matching previous releases : some analysts had questioned how quickly NetWare 4.0 will take off because of its complexity . |
| 27 | Having focused on the more traditional computer platforms in the past it 's no surprise that Unix is SAS ' fastest growing market — 20% of new business in the UK is Unix , it says . |
| 28 | Above : Oamuru airstrip , 700 m of crushed pumice to the east of North Island 's Lake Taupo . |
| 29 | Now beat the yolks with the sugar and re-heat cream , adding two tbsp of hot cream to the yolk mixture . |
| 30 | AN elite corps of transatlantic guardians of the English language has thrown in the towel . |