Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you have to do is send the invoices you want factored to your factor and , provided they approve the accounts they will send you a cheque for around 80 per cent of their value by return mail . |
| 2 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 3 | Mining is Zambia 's main economic activity , with copper accounting for over 90 per cent of metal production and metal exports providing most foreign exchange earnings . |
| 4 | Instead of local taxation in Scotland accounting for only 11 per cent . |
| 5 | At a regional level it has been demonstrated that , in 1971 , over 30 per cent of the population in North Wales and Sussex was aged over 60 , compared with the national mean of only 19 per cent ( Law and Warnes 1975 ) . |
| 6 | The new system is an IBM ES/9000–820 which gives a boost of over 40 per cent in processing capacity over the previous machine . |
| 7 | Indeed , they were sufficient to allow an increase in the labour force of about 5 per cent at constant wages . |
| 8 | Large masses of spray have been recorded moving upwards at above 110 km/h ( 70 mile/h ) , while small jets have been observed with the astounding speed of over 270 km/h ( 170 mile/h ) . |
| 9 | As a rule , pedestrians hit by a car at 30 km/h do not sustain serious injuries , whilst at a collision speed of over 50 km/h , the result is almost always severe injuries , which are often fatal . |
| 10 | The first Atlantic cable operated at a speed of around 3 words/min , equating to a bandwidth of about 1.5Hz/s . |
| 11 | It will have a top speed of around 125 km/h , and it will fit onto any US railway with no clearance problems , or trouble negotiating tight curves . |
| 12 | Johns ( 1985 ) , for example , has examined the impact of logging in part of west Malaysia where the harvest consisted of 3.3 per cent of the trees per ha but which , by damaging saplings and soils , caused an overall loss of nearly 51 per cent of the trees . |
| 13 | β-blockade might impair carbohydrate metabolism either as a consequence of direct β-adrenoreceptor blockade or as the result of relatively unopposed α activity , either of which might suppress insulin release . |
| 14 | If ventilation rate is estimated to be 4 l/min this is equivalent to an excretion of about 140 ml/24 h in breath . |
| 15 | In fact , from their data it can be extrapolated that the maximal trophic effect of gastrin occurs at a concentration of approximately 500 pmol/l . |
| 16 | The mean peak glutamate dialysate concentration of 65 mol/L reached during seizures in the epileptogenic hippocampi represents a theoretical extracellular fluid glutamate concentration of about 0.5 mmol/L . |
| 17 | Body oils can generally be used in higher concentrations of around 3 per cent . |
| 18 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 19 | A swing to Labour of only 2.6 per cent is needed and the sitting Tory MP , David Amess , could lose his seat without the Conservatives losing the country . |
| 20 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 21 | These include : * Dutch studies which claim that energy savings of 33 per cent can be achieved by packaging milk in reusable plastic bottles ; * savings of around 90 per cent in energy use and polluting emissions achieved by Swiss supermarket chain Migros through a switch from cardboard boxes to re-usable plastic ones ; * the success of Sainsbury 's " Penny Back " scheme , which encourages shoppers to re-use carrier bags . |
| 22 | To achieve savings of around 30 per cent , the French will relax certain safety constraints observed in Super-Phenix , the 1200 megawatt breeder due to come into operation next year . |
| 23 | Joe Sharp , director of space research at NASA 's Ames Research Laboratory explains : ‘ Nobody has the foggiest idea of the effect of even 40 per cent or 20 per cent of gravity for extended periods . ’ |
| 24 | Slower growth in wages would produce a cut of about 4 per cent in real terms . |
| 25 | I am sure it was the pressure from the warrior class and the impending general election that led to a final figure of 63,500 , which is a cut of about 17 per cent . |
| 26 | The National Farmers ' Union 's South East region environmental study group is arguing for a fertiliser cut of about 20 per cent , to be applied across Europe by means of individual farm quotas . |
| 27 | It represented in real terms an overall cut of about 9 per cent , though as allocations to individual local authorities were made on an arbitrary basis , some of them suffered much greater reductions . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , does the Minister agree that the number of defence jobs in the north-west has gone down from 23,000 in 1985-86 to only 12,000 in 1989-90 , a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 29 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Mr. Peter Walker : Between June 1987 and January 1989 , seasonally adjusted unemployment has fallen in Wales by 40,900 , from 12.6 to 9.2 per cent. , a decrease of over 27 per cent . |