Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between November 1978 and November 1986 , short-term replacement rates have fallen ; for example , whereas 65 per cent of claimants had an income below 80 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , this had risen to 87 per cent of claimants in 1986 . |
| 2 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |
| 3 | It is perfectly feasible for manufacturers to package their goods in recycled paper without loss of appeal or quality , yet at present only 27 per cent of the paper we consume is recycled , and less than 20 per cent of household newspapers and magazines are recovered . |
| 4 | In some courts applications were successful in 96 per cent of cases ; in other courts only 9 per cent were successful . |
| 5 | Among those on income support only 22 per cent were receiving any maintenance , which represents a substantial fall since 1979 , when half of lone parents on supplementary benefit were receiving some maintenance . |
| 6 | Thus about 48 percent of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi group are aged 0–15 compared to 20 percent in the white population , and at the other end of the age spectrum only 2 per cent are aged over 60 compared to 21 per cent among the white population ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | During the last three months of treatment with enalapril five patients had persistent normoalbuminuria ( 2–3 times below 30 mg/24 h ) , five low microalbuminuria , and one high microalbuminuria ; in the hydrochlorothiazide group one had normoalbuminuria , three low microalbuminuria , and six high microalbuminuria ( χ test=6.7 ; p=0.03 ) . |
| 8 | that particular on there actually only occurs the once , it 's in this position is er , a cluster of four houses together that erm is , if you like , as a , as a signature at the end of this particular |
| 9 | Pluto appeared tiny right from the start ; it is now known to have a mass only 0.2 per cent that of Earth , far too small to have caused the irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune attributed to Planet X. A dedicated group of astronomers have maintained that a tenth planet is required . |
| 10 | In contrast only 15 per cent of all other GP referrals ( and 12 per cent of other female referrals ) were not admitted , while over half were sectioned . |
| 11 | The 1987 joint programme of the ruling Social Democrats ( SPÖ ) and Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) [ see p. 35088 ] had set a target of keeping the 1991 deficit below 3 per cent . |
| 12 | Rateable value times so much er pence per pound R V. |
| 13 | It is estimated that half of the 700,000 lakes in the six eastern provinces of Canada ( south of 52 °N ) have alkalinity ( acid neutralizing capacity ) values below 50 µ eq/l , that is , they are extremely acid sensitive . |
| 14 | Congenital anomalies are uncommon in the offspring of women with phenylalanine concentrations below 900 µmol/l at the time of conception . |
| 15 | Water undertakings ( now the companies and plcs ) should ‘ nevertheless continue to make every effort to keep the concentrations below 50 mg/litre ’ ; |
| 16 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 17 | But of the winners only 2 per cent are shown to be better off by £2 a week , whereas 39 per cent of losers will be asked to pay a local poll tax that is more than £2 above their then current rate contribution ( Poll Tax Facts , no. 9 , Local Government Information Unit , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | In Leicestershire only 22 per cent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners , compared with 37 per cent in Rutland next door . |
| 19 | As a result only 5 per cent of intended affordable housing satisfied affordability criteria for a local community where 75 per cent earn less than £10,000 per annum ( National Audit Office , 1988 ; House of Commons Employment Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Iron deficiency anaemia was defined as a haemoglobin concentration below 11.5 g/dl for women and 13.8 g/dl for men , a mean corpuscular volume below 80 fl and , where available , a ferritin less than 13 ng/l . |
| 21 | And I have pointed out in my papers that you must bear in mind perhaps that er quite a number of Rich er quite a number of the districts in North Yorkshire are of county scale in their sheer size and that therefore it is not inappropriate that at that level that the policies would be refined . |
| 22 | The most dismal performance is by Pravda , the official party paper , of whose regular readers only 36 per cent had renewed their subscriptions . |
| 23 | The 24-valve straight six M50 unit is a simply gorgeous thing to see , with throttle response sharp enough to draw blood , urge aplenty for safe fourth-gear overtaking , a cultured yet appealingly guttural engine note and the kind of smoothness that makes you question the worth of even a good V12 . |
| 24 | With the 24-valve straight six M50 engine , the 325i is now a genuinely fast car . |
| 25 | In the initial review about 70 per cent of the LEAs responded with information , as did nearly all GCE and CSE Boards , the City and Guilds and the RSA . |
| 26 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 27 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 28 | The first six-wheeled coaches were 30ft 6in long , 7ft 9in wide with a total wheel base of 18ft , the distance from centre to centre of the wheels being 9ft and the weight about 11. ¼ tons . |
| 29 | For snorting up your nose you want cocaine about twenty per cent . |
| 30 | Does the Chancellor recognise that his optimism about 2.25 per cent . |