Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 2 | The Bourdillon figure relates closely to other standards for public libraries , such as the IFLA recommendation for 1972 of 250 volumes per thousand population . |
| 3 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 4 | Only 31 per cent of disabled adults under pensionable age are in paid employment and , for one-half of disabled adults under pensionable age , there are no earners in the family unit at all ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1988a ) . |
| 5 | They found that less than one-half of total lending to industry in the UK had a maturity of less than one year in 1980 , with a similar percentage for France and West Germany , and an even higher one for Japan . |
| 6 | The admission by the government on March 1 of the extent of illegal exports of arms and ancillary equipment to Iraq ( valued at about DM1,000 million ) and the initiation on March 12 of criminal proceedings against persons involved in exporting poison gas to Iraq further heightened controversy [ see also pp. 38020 ; 38298 ] . |
| 7 | Considerable gaseous dilatation of the small and large bowel was consistently seen in the AL and the AH patients during their hospital stay ( Fig 1 ) , whereas the abnormal gas disappeared after treatment in 12 of 13 patients with AA ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 8 | The epidemic strain was responsible for 1 of 5 patients colonised with P cepacia in 1989 , and 12 of 16 cases by 1992 . |
| 9 | Three patients from the amoxicillin/omeprazole group complained of side effects ( 15.8% ; mouth burning : n=2 , pruritus : n=1 ) , whereas undesired effects were reported in 12 of 19 patients in the triple therapy group ( 63.2% ; diarrhea : n=4 , sleep disturbances : n=2 , dizziness : n=2 , paresthesias of the legs : n=2 , anal pruritus : n=2 , mouth burning : n=1 , nausea : n=1 , fatigue : n=1 ) . |
| 10 | The mean coefficient of variation of 12 of these series of repeated measurements was 18% . |
| 11 | The directors recommended the payment of a final dividend on 7 June 1993 to ordinary shareholders on the register on 29 April 1993 of 1.0 pence per share . |
| 12 | The government began the transfer on Nov. 2 of 32,000 hectares of land , including parcels in the Cape Province and the Transvaal , to the Bophuthatswana bantustan . |
| 13 | Indeed , it would seem that the purpose for the inclusion of this paragraph in Part I of Schedule 1 is to prevent a person who has been arrested for breach of a condition of his bail from claiming that he is entitled to bail despite that breach of condition , because none of the matters set out in paragraph 2 of that Part of the Schedule apply to his case . |
| 14 | After 40 hours on Jan. 31-Feb. 2 of fraught meetings with government officials from the republic of Serbia and Yugoslav generals , Krajina leaders led by Mile Paspalj , president of the Krajina assembly , agreed to the UN peace plan while Babic was taking a break . |
| 15 | One patient was an occasional non-H 2 producer , as he did not produce breath H 2 after lactulose , but he had an increase in H 2 of 9 ppm after the rice flour meal . |
| 16 | The officer who saw the vehicle being kept should be in a position to state the length of time he observed the vehicle being kept on a public road , but see ( B ) 2 of this offence regarding the length of time kept being immaterial . |
| 17 | After years of acrimonious dispute , the president of Brazil , Fernando Collor de Mello , has announced the demarcation of 94,000km 2 of northern Brazil as the territory of the Yanomami , the largest Indian group in the Amazon rainforest . |
| 18 | There were also reports on Jan. 26 and 30 of anti-US demonstrations in the mainly Kurdish towns of Mersin and Batman . |
| 19 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 20 | WGPT 's expertise in this area has already been proven : They have sold 43 of these systems for wells in the North Sea , representing 50 per cent of the North Sea subsea PDR market . |
| 21 | In January 1964 , Councillor Patrick Friel ( father of playwright Brian Friel ) , addressing a Nationalist protest meeting , said that 212 houses announced by the corporation included luxury flats and other specialist accommodation , leaving only 22 of these houses for occupation by ordinary applicants . |
| 22 | His final effort was the publishing in 1635 of Four Sermons by John Forbes [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Eleven of 14 patients with normal or nearly normal renal function and three of five with moderate renal dysfunction ( mean urea concentration 27.2 mmol/l ; mean creatinine concentration 210 µmol/ l ) who were discharged from hospital after transplantation remained alive in the long term . |
| 24 | ‘ We own about 60 or 70 of 200 houses in the Rivers area , and Trent Street is no worse or no better than anywhere else . ’ |
| 25 | At the Paris pret-a-porter shows last month , there were 70 of these women among the 300 photographers who registered with the Chambre Syndicale for a Photographe pass . |
| 26 | Following the announcement by CEGB in 1980 of five sites to be investigated as possible locations for a new nuclear power station in South West England , the investigator surveyed the attitudes and beliefs concerning energy issues , and nuclear power in particular , held by residents of the communities most closely affected by these proposals . |
| 27 | The inquiry follows from earlier longitudinal research begun in 1980 of working-class women with at least one child at home living in Islington , an inner city area of London where levels of social deprivation are high . |
| 28 | He was found guilty of direct involvement in the illegal sale to the European Communities ( EC ) in 1986 of 20,000 tonnes of Yugoslavian maize , presented as Greek produce to avoid paying EC duties . |
| 29 | Frank Barlow ( Wotsits ) filled second with 2–10–0 of small roach on caster , ahead of Clilff Adcock ( Nottingham Deaf ) on 2–3–0 . |
| 30 | Eight of nine cases of failed papillary cannulation were in the octreotide group , and patients in the octreotide group tended to have fewer ‘ easy ’ as well as more ‘ difficult ’ cannulations of the bile and pancreatic ducts ( Fig 1 ) . |