Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their work , the male inmates got 2 oz. of tobacco a week and the girls had sweets . |
| 2 | The F-Plan will provide you with a wonderfully easy formula for boosting your intake to between 35g and 50g of fibre a day — at least twice most people 's normal consumption — without sacrificing any pleasure in meals . |
| 3 | In more than 80% of cases the site of bleeding is found within 6 cm of the gastro-oesophageal junction , particularly along the lesser curvature . |
| 4 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 5 | The offspring of Edward the Fourth and Elizabeth Woodville were declared bastards on the grounds that , before his marriage , Edward was affianced to Lady Eleanor Butler , since widowed daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury — and sister to the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk , Anne Mowbray 's mother . |
| 6 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 7 | There v.–as of course no sudden abandoning of the principles of nineteenth-century public health policy . |
| 8 | By the first decade of the twentieth century Australia was yielding 230,000 lb of gold a year . |
| 9 | Gunthorpe with the exception of the first ten pegs which are giving 10 to 15 lb of roach the rest appear devoid of fish , Shelford for fish around Stoke Ferry land end and pleasure anglers getting 30 lb plus nets on stick and maggot . |
| 10 | It has already trained six disabled people , generates £10,000 of sales a month and is hoping to extend training to single-parent families . |
| 11 | Our first audit showed that in 20% of referrals the referrer had given inadequate information ; the second showed that in only 7% was information inadequate . |
| 12 | He said it was inevitable that in 5pc of instances the response times may be longer . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ While I appreciate that in some 5pc of cases the response time is outside this target , 36 minutes is unacceptable in Barnard Castle . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ While I appreciate that in some 5pc of cases the response time is outside this target , I do feel that a 36-minute or more response time is unacceptable in Barnard Castle town centre on market day . ’ |
| 15 | In 53 percent of cases the ambulance reached the patient within eight minutes . |
| 16 | In 95 percent of cases the ambulance reached the patient within 14 minutes . |
| 17 | In uncontrolled studies , the use of heater probe in active bleeding ulcers or in ulcers with stigmata of recent haemorrhage , achieves haemostasis in 75 to 100% of cases , and in 69 to 86% of patients the control of bleeding is definitive . |
| 18 | In around 75% of cases the Commissioner 's name is added to the title of the proceedings . |
| 19 | Table 6.4 shows that on about 75% of occasions the state of the atmosphere ( foggy or clear ) remained the same from one day to the next , and a change from one state to another occurred on about 25% of occasions . |
| 20 | In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes . |
| 21 | SOLUTION When 1.00 g of the solute was dissolved in 10 g of solvent the elevation of boiling point was 1.2°C . |
| 22 | Even if the rains come this year , they will do the people of Gondar no good . |
| 23 | It would do the people of Iraq no good at all for the West to step in and take Saddam away from them . |
| 24 | In April 1947 a policy paper placed before the FEC had envisaged an industrial level designed to give the people of Japan a standard of living approximately equal to that experienced in 1930–34 . |
| 25 | Also here is the earlier deed from the Holy Roman Emperor ( 1240 ) granting privileges and liberties to the people of Schwyz the document which was the constitutional basis of the stance taken by the people of Schwyz in refusing to accept subjection to the powerful Austrian Hapsburgs . |
| 26 | I appeal to the Secretary of State not to deny the people of Ireland the basic and fundamental right of full democracy . |
| 27 | The county 's community health unit , which has its headquarters at Bryn y Neuadd Hospital , Llanfairfechan , will give the people of Gwynedd a chance to air their views at a series of meetings . |
| 28 | Well Hartleys the er , the knitting wool people of Keighley the er , his son I soldiered with him |
| 29 | And they have had many letters too — thanking them for giving the people of Tawau an electricity supply that is the envy of the rest of Eastern Malaysia . |
| 30 | Bearing in mind recent noisy Opposition condemnation of steel plant closures , has the Opposition spokesman yet had the guts to give the people of Scotland an unequivocal assurance that , given the chance , they would prevent such closures — |