Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [n mass] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Economic Advisers produced startling figures : 9.3 million ( 20% ) of Americans were living below a poverty line drawn at the income of $3000 a year . |
| 2 | For the majority of people the response to an odour is instantaneous , disappearing immediately the odorant is removed . |
| 3 | Sir , — I believe to the majority of people the addition of VAT to domestic fuel bills will be as welcome as a large hole in a lifeboat would be . |
| 4 | Shortly before the plague , entry fines on the Glastonbury estates were high , at the level of £12 a virgate , but a century later they were nominal . |
| 5 | But as long the rent of £10,000 a year continues to be paid , council officers are n't bothered if Mrs Maxwell lives there or not . |
| 6 | So it remains the case that everyone earning over the threshold has to pay contributions on every pound earned , up to the ceiling of £325 a week . |
| 7 | Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet . |
| 8 | They were no less enthused when Mr Rice put up some film of seriously ordinary people , the sort of folk the average celebrity sees across a crash barrier . |
| 9 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 10 | But if I do that , well , I copy the C four , C six down have C five , C seven and then when I go in and insert the extra rows then er , well that formula 's not going to refer to those new rows that I insert it 's still cell the right of price and the right of sales the wrong sales certainly . |
| 11 | Some speakers , like Heseltine , come across more powerfully and capture the imagination of people a little better … ’ |
| 12 | The Zombies take on the appearance of people the adventurers know ( and preferably care about or at least like ) and reach forward to them as if in greeting . |
| 13 | b ) Now work out the area of 10m the small rectangle . |
| 14 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 15 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 16 | Northampton Town , languishing since Chapman 's departure and losing money at the rate of £30 a week , were open to offers for Fanny Walden . |
| 17 | By the ship 's articles , executed before the commencement of the voyage , the plaintiff was to be paid at the rate of £5 a month ; and the principal question in the cause was , whether he was entitled to a higher rate of wages . |
| 18 | Therefore , without looking to the policy of this agreement , I think it is void for want of consideration , and that the plaintiff can only recover at the rate of £5 a month . |
| 19 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 20 | But obviously the Government can not spend more when it is already ‘ overdrawing ’ at the rate of £50bn a year which anyone can work out is around £1,000 per head of population or say £2,000 per working person . |
| 21 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 22 | Additionally , the exchange value of the dollar was pegged in terms of gold at the rate of $35 an ounce . |
| 23 | He points out that once fashionable products like royal jelly are now declining at the rate of 40% a year . |
| 24 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 25 | The offer of 550p a share , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , has received undertakings to accept from 35.8 per cent of Caradon shareholders but of these only 12 per cent , mainly Caradon directors , have given irrevocable undertakings . |
| 26 | MENTAL health officials used a ‘ hands-off ’ community care charity to defraud the Government of £340,000 a year in social security payments , an industrial tribunal was told yesterday . |
| 27 | On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month . |
| 28 | The total dividend goes up from 10.3p to 11.5p , but it will be paid on 2 April , just before the new 20 per cent tax credit on dividends comes into force , rather than in June , saving the company £940,000 , or the equivalent of 0.224p a share . |
| 29 | Mitel Corp , Kanata , Ontario is to offer 21.95m common shares at the equivalent of $1.60 a share in Canada Four entities advised by Schroder Ventures , the international venture capital and buyout affiliate of Schroders Plc , intend to buy 4.88m of the shares . |
| 30 | Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles . |