Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Pearson 's television interests include 17.5% of BSkyB and 14% of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees . ) |
| 2 | In the Cardiff trial 14% of community care patients received regular general practitioner review and only 5% received yearly blood glucose estimations . |
| 3 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 4 | There was a mighty bang and the 217mph Big Cat groaned to a stop with £20,000 of engine damage . |
| 5 | Then he tucked into the ‘ pan fried calves liver with sauted apples served with a crisp stir fry of mange tout . ’ |
| 6 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 7 | Non-hydrogen producers were not encountered in this study , since all volunteers excreted 20 ppm of breath hydrogen in at least one of the experiments after eating the breakfast marked with lactulose . |
| 8 | Whilst water stress periods depressed production of wheat grown under normal carbon dioxide levels , wheat grown under 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide produced as much as unstressed plants grown at the current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide , and remained turgid at moisture levels that wilted their unexposed counterparts . |
| 9 | LLNL 's samples contain up to 15 ppm of carbon tetrachloride , TCE , perchlorethylene and chloroform , as in the groundwater . |
| 10 | A jump-seat capable of carrying a seventy-pound child was added as an optional extra , but Univair made only 42 aircraft in 1950 and seven in 1951 before selling the ATC to Forney Aircraft of Fort Collins , who changed the name to ‘ Aircoupe ’ , made a number of further modifications including fitting the Continental C–90 engine , built twelve , then changed the name yet again to the ‘ Fornaire ’ , 82 being made under that identification . |
| 11 | Somewhere in the jungle , awaiting the homage of patriotic Japanese , is the remains of the aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto , who planned the attack on Pearl Harbour . |
| 12 | Meanwhile three S.79s from 10° and 30° Stormo B.T. had also operated over Malta on 15th. , one aircraft of 32° Gruppo being lost . |
| 13 | JAPANESE aircraft of World War Two are going through a resurgence of interest with several different types coming to the fore once more . |
| 14 | De Havilland Aircraft of World War One by Jack Bruce , an authority on World War One aircraft , is a definitive study of those products of de Havilland , ranging from the DH.1 through to the DH.15 Gazelle . |
| 15 | Able to absorb large amounts of punishment in combat , the P-47 Jug was respected and admired by its pilots and groundcrews alike , emerging as one of the great fighting aircraft of World War Two . |
| 16 | Transit passage is to be enjoyed by ‘ all ships and aircraft ’ not merely by the ships and aircraft of States parties . |
| 17 | Alcohol is thought to be responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year , as well as 60pc of suicide attempts , 50pc of murders , 54pc of fires and 30pc of domestic accidents . |
| 18 | Thus , according to the most recent readership profiles assembled by The Guardian , 56% of Guardian readers agree with the statement ‘ I disapprove of aerosol cans because of the effect on the atmosphere ’ , 139,000 of them have taken out life assurance payable on death , 5% are under 40 , 73% bought records last year , more of them attended theatre and contemporary dance events more often than readers of other quality dailies and 25,000 of them invested in unit trusts . |
| 19 | A survey last year showed 51pc of personnel managers in favour of a minimum wage . |
| 20 | For example , the city 's welfare spending has to cover 25% of Medicaid bills , at a cost of about $1 billion a year . |
| 21 | He estimated that 25% of subject searches and 18% of author/title searches failed at the first attempt . |
| 22 | Virgin will take 25% of US stores and a 50% stake in Australian business , with Blockbuster taking the remaining equity . |
| 23 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 24 | One may easily state , for instance , that no more than 25% of fiction funds will be spent on light fiction , but the statement is unhelpful unless all parties involved will readily recognize an item of light fiction when they see one . |
| 25 | — A lifetime prevalence of social phobia has been identified in more than 25% of anorexia nervosa patients . |
| 26 | 25% of World food production |
| 27 | Amongst dual-earner married couples with children , women 's earnings contributed 25% of family income from employment ( Family Expenditure Survey 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Allianz has 25% of Münchener Rückversicherung ( Munich Re ) , the world 's biggest reinsurance group , which in turn has 25% of Allianz . |
| 29 | Around 20% to 25% of desktop space could be use for management alone , he speculated . |
| 30 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |