Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels . |
| 2 | 7.5.2 When the circumstances contemplated in clause 7.5.1 arise the rents or a fair proportion of the rents according to the nature and the extent of the damage sustained shall cease to be payable until the date which falls 3 months after the date when the Premises with essential accesses and services are again rendered fit for occupation and use and a due proportion of the rents paid in advance shall be refunded to the Tenant any dispute as to such proportion or the period during which the rents shall cease to be payable to be determined in accordance with the Arbitration Acts 1950 to 1979 by an arbitrator to be appointed by agreement between the parties or in default by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors upon the application of either party |
| 3 | In addition others have shown in mice that a high proportion of mucosal lymphocytes produce cytokines such as γ-interferon and interleukin 5 in vitro . |
| 4 | It differs from the rest of Newham in that it is less typically an inner-city area and rather more middle class with few tower blocks and a higher proportion of owner-occupied housing . |
| 5 | At university there were fewer lectures and a large proportion of the time was supposed to be spent working on her own . |
| 6 | The SOED mainly funds research which is related to Government policy concerns but a small proportion of the budget is reserved to fund ideas which come from the research community . |
| 7 | Particularly in manufacturing , R&D is never quite free from its past projects and a substantial proportion of its resources must be earmarked for trouble-shooting arising from , for instance , the need to find a substitute for an obsolescent component before it is in short supply . |
| 8 | They reported that recalled birth weight was accurate to within 100 g in three quarters of cases and a similar proportion of reported gestational ages were accurate to within one week when compared with hospital records . |
| 9 | Bury St Edmunds , hub of the ancient Liberty of St Edmund , with well in excess of 3,000 inhabitants , had fewer labourers and a higher proportion of middling and richer men than its immediate environs ; but this apart , there was little to chose between town and country , except at the top of the scale , despite a Hawstead knight 's £500 in the latter . |
| 10 | However , they are unable to sidestep the results that show that areas with a high proportion of young men aged 15–24 years and a high proportion of the working class have significantly higher crime rates — and both these groups have the highest levels of unemployment experiences . |
| 11 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 12 | In the latter two countries there are markedly decentralised union-management structures and a large proportion of collective agreements are made at the enterprise or workplace levels . |
| 13 | A threefold increase in the proportion of large group ( >12 authors or multi-institutional ) studies and a reduced proportion of small group ( 1–3 author ) studies was seen in both general and specialist clinical journals . |
| 14 | Licensees must provide a diverse programme service appealing to a wide variety of taste and interest , high quality news and current affairs and a reasonable proportion of other programmes of high quality . |
| 15 | Although local authorities are accountable to the local electorate , their powers and a significant proportion of their finance are derived ultimately from Parliament ( which in practice is invariably dominated by government ) . |
| 16 | In central Australia there are few mountain ranges but a large proportion of land is perfect for sheep farming with the ground being 0–1000m . |
| 17 | By the nineteenth century England had become the nation of landscape painters although a large proportion of her artists were Scots who , tempted like their lairds a century before , had moved to London for prestige and remuneration . |
| 18 | Library materials , as they include a wider range of formats and a greater proportion of locally produced items planned for the known needs of known students , can make a more varied contribution to student learning than hitherto ; individual study has an increasingly important role in contemporary education , and the new potential of library materials is therefore timely . |
| 19 | These figures are produced by a combination of younger marriages and a higher proportion of women marrying . |
| 20 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 21 | All the elders and a large proportion of the people " came out " in July , and a congregation was formed . |
| 22 | However , women receive lower redundancy payments than men and a larger proportion of them are ineligible for payments altogether . |
| 23 | There is a concentration of specialised services and a higher proportion of admissions occur for elective treatments and through A&E than emergency GP referral . |