Example sentences of "world 's [noun sg] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently 17 per cent of the world 's electricity demand was met by nuclear power . |
| 2 | This autumn I visited the San Joaquin Valley in California where almost half of the world 's raisin crop is grown . |
| 3 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 4 | Variety trumpeted : ‘ It 's a new ballgame ; the artists and scientists of the world 's cinema center are unhesitant about saying to all the world that there 's to be no hesitation about subject matter . |
| 5 | Above : Most of the world 's gold supply is consumed in the form of jewellery . |
| 6 | Gold and silver had a brilliant run in the years that followed , when inflation was unchecked and the world 's currency markets were in disorder . |
| 7 | The islands on which Venice is based are sinking , 9 inches in this century alone ; at the same time the world 's sea level is rising as the polar ice caps melt . |
| 8 | Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources . |
| 9 | In 1995 , the world 's space agencies are intending to launch 15 observation platforms into space , which will make systematic observations across the globe . |
| 10 | The reason for the gloss that this book puts on the world 's space affairs is simple . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you know , ’ says Vic , ’ that ninety-six percent of the world 's microwave ovens are made in Japan , Taiwan or Korea ? ’ |
| 12 | The world 's computer market is awash with software programs for every kind of application . |
| 13 | The world 's food problem is as big as its medical one . |
| 14 | Half the world 's particle physicists are involved in its work ; there are more Americans working there than there are physicists from any other country . |
| 15 | This means that over 20% of the world 's oil consumption is burnt in vehicle engines while in industrialised-countries the proportion is far higher . |
| 16 | ‘ Only four per cent of the world 's oil production is used to make plastics . |
| 17 | The difficulties involved in reducing the world 's oil dependence are clearly seen in the fact that the transport sector is almost completely oil fuelled . |
| 18 | The rapid decline in the world 's frog population is due at least in part to pesticides , according to Adelaide Univeristy 's frog expert Michael Tyler , in an address given to the Austrialia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science ( ANZAAS ) . |
| 19 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 20 | Because over half the world 's cereal harvest is fed to livestock being reared for slaughter , and not to men , women and children . |
| 21 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 22 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 23 | World 's End Nurseries is situated in the heart of Chelsea in an acre of landscaped garden . |
| 24 | When Wall Street has indigestion , the world 's market economies are checked out for coronaries . |