Example sentences of "[n mass] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 2 | See mail message : xxxxxx in the printed mail . |
| 3 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 4 | But the use of aircraft in the First World War showed the potential of aerial reconnaissance for discovering and interpreting archaeological sites , and this technique was pioneered by OGS Crawford ( 1886–1957 ) . |
| 5 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 6 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 7 | The interest in Britain 's retention of bases and the deployment of troops , ships and aircraft in the Persian Gulf , at Aden and Singapore , and in the Indian Ocean deepened as the United States became ever more deeply and uncomfortably involved in war in South-East Asia from the mid-1960s . |
| 8 | I know that the hon. Lady would like to get rid of every aircraft in the Royal Air Force if she could . |
| 9 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 10 | The National Fertility Survey of 1978 found that 34% of all women of child-bearing age practised some form of contraception ( 56% in the metropolitan area , 42% in urban areas and 26% in rural areas ) . |
| 11 | IBM , which markets the Stratus line as its System/88 series , says sales of the boxes dipped by 56% in the third quarter , and accounted for just 7% of Stratus ' revenues for the same quarter . |
| 12 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 13 | The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce . |
| 14 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 15 | Among the five substantial trials of treatment of hypertension in elderly people the reduction in stroke was 47% in the Swedish trial , 42% in the hypertension in elderly patients study , 37% in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme , 36% in the European working party trial , and 25% in the Medical Research Council 's trial . |
| 16 | What is the road speed per 1000 rpm in the high range gears , particularly 4th and 5th ? |
| 17 | This will mean a proposed increase of £460m in the first year , followed by £770m in the second rising to £1.95 billion within five years . |
| 18 | Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels , or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks . |
| 19 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 20 | By the end of 1948 Smith had worked out more plausible commissioning targets rising from around 562MW in the current year to 1107MW in 1949 , 1155MW in 1950 and 1600MW in 1951 . |
| 21 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 22 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
| 23 | BP reported a first half net loss of £717m compared with a net profit of £834m in the same period last year . |
| 24 | The company , which also makes Scalextric , saw profits crash by 70 per cent to £158,000 in the first half of this year . |
| 25 | Sales for the period to 30 June were slightly higher at £5.2m against £5.08m in the comparable period . |
| 26 | This dose of capsaicin was given in four injections over two days ( first day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 25 mg/kg in the later afternoon , second day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 50 mg/kg in the late afternoon ) . |
| 27 | This dose of capsaicin was given in four injections over two days ( first day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 25 mg/kg in the later afternoon , second day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 50 mg/kg in the late afternoon ) . |
| 28 | In the Marne valley the active lime content , which is not directly proportional to the total lime content , is high — up to 43% in the calcareous topsoil and as much as 53% in the pure chalk subsoil stratas — but the average active lime content is considerably lower . |
| 29 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 30 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |