Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] and [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drive to Beaver Creek , looking out on the way for moose and eagles along the roadside . |
| 2 | The fees alone amount to between £6000 and £10,000 for the three years , payable at the beginning of each year . |
| 3 | Alpha Microsystems Inc is anticipating a mild comeback figuring it 'll have a profit between $190,000 and $250,000 for the third quarter ended November 28 on revenues between $10.5m and $11m . |
| 4 | The new team , brought in by the company 's largest investor , has laid off 30% of Computone 's staff and has already trimmed between $3m and $4m off the company 's overhead . |
| 5 | The most important result from these experiments is that if the first ten positions of the list of allowable candidate strings are considered , the correct words are present between 97% and 100% of the time , depending on the particular writing being analysed . |
| 6 | Some firms introduce a percentage factor into the calculation and only pay between 50% and 90% of the hours saved . |
| 7 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 8 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 9 | Only between 10% and 20% of the club 's participants are Sun clients , Saillard says . |
| 10 | Corporate membership is aimed towards companies within Edinburgh District who , depending on how many employees are joining the scheme , can make a saving of between 10% and 50% off the cost of their cards . |
| 11 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 12 | Accordingly it is no longer adding premium prices to the VAX Line — in the UK for instance , system prices for the VAX 4000 Model 500 have been reduced by between 14% and 21% across the range , with an unlimited open VMS user licence falling in price from £29,000 to £7000 — a 76% reduction . |
| 13 | Oh it was er it was about six pound in weight when you put it together anyway , and erm used to make parts for aircraft and parts for the dropping of the bombs which we called drop bars . |
| 14 | After breaking the computer down into its hazardous and raw materials , ‘ the only thing we dispose of is between 3% and 5% of the computer 's total weight , ’ says founder and marketing director Peter Domini . |
| 15 | Todd reckons that Christie can gross between £1 and £4million over the next four years . |
| 16 | But Mr Gunn said other disposals should take that total to between £400million and £500million before the end of next year . |
| 17 | Smoke alarms can cost you between £10 and £15 in the shops , but we 're happy to offer you this Sleep-save Smoke Alarm as a FREE GIFT with your Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN . |
| 18 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 19 | All companies showed a strong commitment to language training which varied between 20% and 65% of the company 's training budget . |
| 20 | Part of the new cash from DEC will go to buying between 4% and 5% of the total Olivetti equity from the Italian 's management board , ( of which CIR is the majority shareholder ) . |
| 21 | Excise duties account for 54% of the retail price of a typically priced bottle of Scotch and for 42% and 18% of the retail price of typical wine and beer products respectively . |
| 22 | And a shot of whisky would cost between 74p and £1.25 in the North , 80p to £1.20 in Yorkshire and 90p to £1.26 in London . |
| 23 | Dozens of business-people and personalities from the region have entered the challenge which aims to raise thousands of pounds for cancer care organisation , Macmillan Nurses . |
| 24 | Enclosure in Northamptonshire was early and extensive because of the importance of sheep and cattle to the local economy . |
| 25 | These applications require the assembling of data and concepts from the different systematic branches of geography to produce an integrated picture of the demographic , social , environmental and economic aspects of a particular area . |
| 26 | Onboard seismic and navigation data processing enabled early interpretation of data and selection of the well location within weeks of the data being acquired . |
| 27 | The £100,000 project — including a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 28 | The £100,000 project — which has a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 29 | Norwegians are proud of their management of fish stocks : the number of cod and herring in the Barents Sea is rising , whereas the EC 's fisheries policy has failed to prevent the depletion of stocks in its waters . |
| 30 | The Minister of State for Social Security , in outlining his calculations , demonstrated that increases of £5 and £8 in the pensions would have lead to only 100,000 ceasing entirely to draw means-tested assistance ( letter from John Major , MP , to the author , 7 October 1986 ) . |