Example sentences of "of [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data for an intensive sheep croft of 3 ha , with a share in 21 ha of improved common grazing , indicate a net income of only £868 from sheep production , as compared with £5,460 from weaving 2.5 tweeds per 4U-hour week . |
| 2 | This compares with a small bowel resection rate of only 4% at five years among 116 patients having a proctocolectomy for Crohn 's colitis in this unit . |
| 3 | The proposals would cause disproportionate damage to the Legal Aid Scheme — cutting the number of legal aid certificates by 30% in order to make a saving of only 4% of the total costs of the Scheme . |
| 4 | However , it has also recently suggested a tag of only $1,000 for the server . |
| 5 | However , it has also recently suggested a tag of only $1,000 for the server . |
| 6 | To bring a level of order and modesty to Fleck 's life Norwich took the unprecedented step of paying him an allowance of only £29 per week and preserving the remainder of his salary to pay off the debts . |
| 7 | This is reflected in half-time profits pegged back to £37.1m , a rise of only £3.7m over the last six months . |
| 8 | There is a difficulty , however , if the seller is disposing of only part of his holding represented by a certificate or if he is disposing of all his holding but to several buyers . |
| 9 | A conclusion does not have to include all the available information : the conclusion may coalesce out of only part of it . |
| 10 | Since many sediments contain mixtures of gravels , sands and finer particles the dry sieving technique may be appropriate for examination of only part of the whole assemblage of particles . |
| 11 | These relate to how the roles of each party to the combination are portrayed , their involvement in the selection of the combined entity 's management , their relative sizes , whether shareholders receive consideration other than equity in the combined entity , and whether they retain an interest in the performance of only part of it . |
| 12 | The exemption will not apply to a mere agreement for the sale of specific assets or where the vendor is disposing of only part of his interest in the business . |
| 13 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |
| 14 | The store plans to cater for about 10 trainees at a time at a cost of only £29.95 for three hours . |
| 15 | The Warner Bugs Bunny Club will be showing films and cartoons , including old favourites and new releases such as Back to the Future III and Babar the Movie , from about 9.30am at a cost of only £1.50 per person . |
| 16 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 17 | Last month 's underlying decline of only $142m in the reserves seems an especially unrealistic guide to the actual level of intervention by the Bank of England — in concert with other central banks — to depress the dollar , and also — on its own account — to defend the weakening pound . |
| 18 | It has been estimated by the CBI that in the period 1979–91 an average of only 40% of firms were working at full capacity . |
| 19 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 20 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 21 | It was fitted with two Ne–20 jets of 1,047lbs thrust each and , being underpowered , managed a top speed ( without bomb load ) of only 452mph with a range of 553 miles . |
| 22 | For example , a 20% fall in profits can be translated into a fall of only 10% in the PRP pool . |
| 23 | A spokeswoman for RAF Marham said Mr Durrant was the only veteran from Essex to be invited and one of only handful from across Britain . |
| 24 | The other work in this boldly planned programme was Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring , in an interpretation which is surely the product of much thought on Rattle 's part . |
| 25 | The other work in this boldly planned programme was Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring , in an interpretation which is surely the product of much thought on Rattle 's part . |
| 26 | He discovered from Board of Trade figures for 1907 that agricultural earnings varied from an average of below 16s. per week in East Anglia and Oxfordshire to above 20s. per week in the northern industrial counties , in Middlesex and industrial South Wales , although he found ‘ thousands ’ of families living on earnings below 14s. 11d. per week , sometimes as little as 10s . |
| 27 | After only six months the investor would be entitled to receive a bank loan of perhaps 72p per share , normally secured on the shares . |
| 28 | On average each desktop publishing software vendor produces a new and improved version of the software every eighteen months at an incremental cost of perhaps 20% of the original cost-effectively free in real terms . |
| 29 | The Antares 130 is no exception , with a six-cylinder unit of exactly 6,000cc in capacity and with a bore and stroke of 1005 and 115.5mm . |
| 30 | The aims of Reflexology are : to relax stress and tension , the cause of approximately 75% of today 's diseases and ailments ; to relieve blocked nerve impulses that end in the feet , to improve circulation , for it is at the feet that the blood , as it is pumped around the body , changes direction . |