Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 2 | It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business . |
| 3 | a bit too much int they ? |
| 4 | Yukawa 's meson , the transmitter of the strong force , turned out to have a mass roughly 15 per cent that of the proton and some 270 times that of the electron . |
| 5 | Pluto appeared tiny right from the start ; it is now known to have a mass only 0.2 per cent that of Earth , far too small to have caused the irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune attributed to Planet X. A dedicated group of astronomers have maintained that a tenth planet is required . |
| 6 | As she looked around she felt a twinge of sadness that in a carriage where 70 per cent of the commuters were men there were five women forced to stand in the aisle . |
| 7 | The formula for calculating the tension of an open-wound string is likely to give a figure over 10 per cent too high because the theory behind it does not consider the deviation of the winding wire from a circular cross-section as it is bent around the core . |
| 8 | As a result only 5 per cent of intended affordable housing satisfied affordability criteria for a local community where 75 per cent earn less than £10,000 per annum ( National Audit Office , 1988 ; House of Commons Employment Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | You just work on a plan where that i at the er at the beginning of the day you 're , you 're given your people to watch . |
| 10 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 11 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 12 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 13 | But thanks to the newspapers , now circulating millions of copies in a population over 80 per cent literate , birth control was ‘ brought onto every Englishman 's breakfast table ’ ( Banks and Banks 1954 ) . |
| 14 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 15 | BPB fell 17p to 217p after issuing a £64 million 15-year Euroconvertible yielding a touch under 7.5 per cent , and confirming a cut in the dividend from 11.25p to 7.5p for the current year . |
| 16 | Bands like that are accidents waiting to happen in a world where 99 per cent of groups are casualties of their own blatant ambition . |
| 17 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
| 18 | Mrs C wanted the child admitted to a school where 98 per cent of the pupils were white . |
| 19 | A year ago 37 per cent of individuals indicated that would prefer to buy through a salesman , while 20 per cent preferred building societies . |
| 20 | In 1928 the Preussen Kasse , the Prussian Office , estimated that within a year almost 75 per cent of the surviving East Prussian estates would be bankrupt . |
| 21 | More than I , 200 guns of every type — including 42 cm mortars , known as ‘ Big Berthas ’ — were brought forward and closely packed on a front only some 13km/ 8mls long . |
| 22 | Are the Government trying to ruin our industry at a time when 18 per cent . |
| 23 | Compulsory redundancies have been made at packaging firm Marchant Manufacturing Co Ltd in Piperell Way , Haverhill — at a time when 10.6 per cent of the town 's workers are jobless . |