Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [n mass] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the fact that this can be achieved at less than £10,000 for a complete system is rather likely to upset anyone who has invested hundreds of thousands in ‘ Third Wave ’ systems and discovers that , for a tenth the cost they could actually achieve rather more . |
| 2 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 3 | In fact i has to be less than 90° for the simple reason that the supergiant does not eclipse the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 at any part of the orbit ; if τ were 90° the orbits would be seen edge-on and eclipsing would be unavoidable . |
| 4 | less than 75% of the fat in standard equivalent food — some products have only half the fat . |
| 5 | the shares , together with any shares already held by the person acquiring them carry not less than 75% of the votes ; and |
| 6 | The Pru says that Britain is becoming a nation of spendthrifts with less than £5 in every £100 of disposable income being saved last year -the lowest level for 30 years — and is encouraging people to save the extra cash . |
| 7 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 8 | I would be surprised if the LTA lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event |
| 9 | After spending less than £500,000 above the line in 1991 , the company plans a £3.5m spend behind the new product in TV and press ads through Ogilvy & Mather . |
| 10 | Priced at around $3,500 — expensive , but still less than 5% of the cost of a new Mercedes Benz sports car — it is more likely to be seen in Beverly Hills than in Baltimore . |
| 11 | According to Dr Mobius , over 75% of the world 's population lives in such countries , which currently account for only 11% of the world 's GNP and less than 5% of the capitalisation of the world equity markets . |
| 12 | The reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of D. desulfuricans could not be the result of indirect reduction of Fe(III) by sulphide because the initial sulphate concentration of only 320μM could provide enough sulphide to reduce less than 5% of the Fe(III) that was reduced . |
| 13 | Oracle , introduced on to its platforms last Autumn , is expected to become the predominant software environment fairly quickly — less than 5% of the installed base run Sequoia 's proprietary database system . |
| 14 | This showed that the bigram matrix is 53% full , whereas less than 5% of the trigram transitions are found in the LOB corpus . |
| 15 | We have previously seen these peaks in material derived from human antrum where they are generally less than 5% of the total . |
| 16 | Incubation with 1 4 C glutamine in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens gave results that were less than 5% of the values obtained when a biopsy specimen was present . |
| 17 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 18 | Some commentators have suggested that a movement of less than 5% in the price of the shares in question would most probably be regarded as not material . |
| 19 | It is wise to aim for nitrate ( NO3 ) levels of less than 255ppm in the fish-only tank and 5ppm in the invertebrate aquarium . |
| 20 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than £1,000 for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within fixed assets are less than £3,000 both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 21 | On mountain flanks within 5° of the South Pole they cover less than 1% of the ground ; on damper coastal flats and uplands they may spread to 15% cover or even more . |
| 22 | Thus , most of the lunar surface is extremely old : probably only about 1% of the surface is younger than 3000 Ma , whereas less than 1% of the Earth 's surface is older than this . |
| 23 | If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic . |
| 24 | This year 's results tend to reinforce that view with exports to the former Eastern bloc remaining of limited significance at £82 million or less than 1% of the total . |
| 25 | The prevalence of severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia is estimated conservatively at not less than 1% of the population . |
| 26 | The labelled cells were washed twice in isotonic saline which leaves less than 1% of the 5 1 Cr unbound . |
| 27 | This type of diet contains negligible amounts of long chain n3 fatty acids ( less than 1% of the total fatty acids consumed ) . |
| 28 | Multiple biopsies sample much less than 1% of the surface area of the colon . |
| 29 | In total they accounted for less than 1% of the market value of government bonds outstanding at end-September , 1991 . |
| 30 | ‘ Shared care ’ high cost drugs are , however , a very small part of the primary care drug bill — less than 1% in the west midlands in 1991 . |