Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He estimated that 25% of subject searches and 18% of author/title searches failed at the first attempt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A cancellation fee of 25% of tuition fees will be made unless the school receives notice of cancellation , in writing , two weeks before the course is due to start . |
| 6 | It could conceivably capture 10% to 25% of Unix users if its $500 list price is right . |
| 7 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 8 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Ingredients are 4 oz. of chicken livers ( frozen livers are perfectly adequate ) ; 3 oz. of butter ; a tablespoon of brandy ; seasonings . |
| 10 | Two studies have shown that general practitioners can deal with a high proportion of night calls on the telephone , but Sheldon and Harris found that fewer than 3% of night calls received by two deputising services were dealt with by giving advice by telephone without a visit . |
| 11 | About 10% of school pupils take two or more A levels , usually in full-time education in school or FE college , between the ages of 17 and 19 . |
| 12 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 13 | The transport department estimates that a charge of about 1.5 pence a mile for cars and vans and 4.5 pence for other vehicles would divert about 10% of vehicle miles at peak periods . |
| 14 | Surveys of such areas in many countries have almost invariably shown the presence of viable eggs of T. canis in around 10% of soil samples . |
| 15 | The top 10% of income earners reduced their share of total income by 3.7% , but the bottom 30% also had their share reduced , in this case by 2.5% . |
| 16 | This is in contrast with Moorglen et al , who reported the presence of glutathione S-transferase π in 100% of samples , and glutathione S-transferase α in only 10% of tumour samples , by immunohistochemistry with an immunoperoxidase staining method . |
| 17 | Table 1 gives the results of the analysis of 105 neuritic plaques in stained tissue from the temporal cortex and hippocampus of five clinically and pathologically characterized cases of AD and two aged controls , and shows that less than 10% of plaque cores contain aluminium deposits , which are usually co-localized with silicon . |
| 18 | Indeed , 55% of survey respondents stated that the main purpose of their board should be to improve communication between parents and the school . |
| 19 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 20 | In this brief precis of object relations theory I have started from the proposition that good objects are remembered and bad ones only hidden in the unconscious . |
| 21 | The nucleotide sequence data of parthenogenesis bacteria will appear in Genbank under the following accession numbers ; M. uniraptor , L02882 ; T. cordubensis , L02883 ; T. deion TX , 102884 ; T. pretiosum , L02885 , T. deion Mo , 102886 ; T. deion Ba , L02887 ; T. Deion SD , L02888 . |
| 22 | The relevant clinical , biochemical , and histological data of autoimmune patients , divided according to the anti-hepatitis C virus and autoantibody status , are reported in Table IV . |
| 23 | Although much of this criticism centres on the misuse of his work by others , some more substantive arguments are that middle-class values inform his conceptual distinctions and that these are insufficiently grounded in the raw data of speech patterns . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats will be depressed to see that only 40pc of Alliance voters in 1987 are now ready to vote for Peter Bergg . |
| 25 | At least 90% of lung cancers are due to smoking . |
| 26 | Wooden repairs to flying and control surfaces have been finished and 90% of metal repairs have been carried out . |
| 27 | 90% of university honours graduates enter their courses on the basis of GCE A- levels . |
| 28 | Just over 90% of university students are full-time ( DES , 1989b , Tables 1 and 4 ) . |
| 29 | These have the great advantage from the perspective of disabled passengers that models less than four years old can accommodate around 90% of wheelchair users who wish to remain in their wheelchairs while travelling . |
| 30 | Yet it 's estimated that in about 90% of house burglaries , the thief entered with very little effort . |