Example sentences of "[be] of [art] order " in BNC.

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1 Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years .
2 The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved .
3 Aisled barns are of the order of 9–15m ( 29–49ft ) wide ; a simple triangular truss could be made to span a building 10m ( 33ft ) wide , but most ‘ single-cell ’ barns were of the width defined above and would certainly not exceed 7.5m ( 24–1/2ft ) in width .
4 Since the radii of these cones are of the order of inter-atomic spacings — ie 1–2A/9 — the ions will penetrate only the outermost surface layers , making TOF-SARS extremely surface sensitive .
5 The frequencies lie within ranges which are of the order of one Cycle in 10 , 20 and 60 seconds .
6 ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’
7 However , his average price still increases by 18% in 1991 , while we have a very significant downturn for Italians , while the decreases are of the order of 10% , 18% and 35% for the Flemish , French and Italian drawings respectively .
8 They are of the order of mm , and each neuron may have 10 3 to 10 5 such synapses from other neurons on its dendrites and cell body .
9 The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former .
10 The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former .
11 During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year .
12 It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year .
13 Including the small flocks , totalling 100 birds or fewer , occurring on ponds other than those listed on page 86 , the total wintering population of the county appears to be of the order of 1,000 to 1,400 birds .
14 In addition to the figures tabulated , a total of some 100–200 birds is usually recorded each winter on other ponds , and the present wintering population of Sussex seems to be of the order of 1,000–2,000 birds .
15 So the final doses are likely to be of the order of 4 rems .
16 This potential demand is estimated to be of the order of 600,000 , and if it becomes clear that the housing market has bottomed out and house prices are rising once more , it could provide significant support to the housing market .
17 In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% .
18 But even if not , mass lost from evolved bulge stars , expected to be of the order of 0.2 solar masses M and ; per year , will find itself on self-intersecting orbits , and will fall toward the centre .
19 First , it was estimated that the annual cost of the scheme to the Council would possibly be of the order of £1.25 million .
20 These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most .
21 The speed of rotation should be of the order of 30 — 60 r.p.m .
22 This REM sleep " rebound " may be of the order of 50 per cent over baseline levels , although the total amount of REM sleep " lost " during the period of selective deprivation is rarely made up entirely .
23 For example , if the eigenvalues are numerically small , a unit could dominate the spectral matrix ; or if they are very large , a unit could be of the order of the errors in the computation .
24 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) .
25 Quantities should be of the order ½-1 kg per sq m ( 1–2 lb per sq yd ) where the pH is 6.0 , and double this if it is 5.0 , giving less for sandy soil and more for clay .
26 Widths vary according to the number of retrieval units used but could be of the order of 10 metres .
27 On the other hand your chance of dying before the age of 100 will be of the order of .99 ie a very high probability .
28 For bond stretches involving heavy atoms , where hω e is of the order of a few hundred cm -1 , hχ e may be of the order of 1 cm -1 or less .
29 There is no precise figure available about employment in the opencast coal industry , but the number is likely to be of the order of 17,000 .
30 It is anticipated that our average fee per hour will be of the order of £ [ ] .
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