Example sentences of "that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | First , The World Bank estimates that between 90 and 95 per cent of public investment in agriculture since World War II in Mexico and Peru has been in irrigated agriculture , and practically none in watershed management . |
| 32 | He estimates that between 35- 41 per cent of all useful land is affected by erosion . |
| 33 | This , in turn , suggests that between one quarter and one third of all country seats that existed in 1875 have been demolished . |
| 34 | Social historians would note that between 1889 and 1911 the number of clerks employed in Britain increased by 37.5 per cent . |
| 35 | He had seemed indefatigable ; his diaries reveal that between 1865 and 1870 he had travelled at least forty-two thousand miles per year , but he died only seven years after his father , leaving the business in the capable hands of his sons Ernest , Frank and Tom . |
| 36 | In May 1984 Charbonnages de France ( C de F ) , the state-owned coal company , announced that between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs would be lost over the following five years . |
| 37 | When the increases in the money supply are expressed as percentages of adjusted social product , it can be seen that between 1977 and 1985 the government normally took about 6–7 per cent of the social product for extra-budgetary purposes ( 1983 was the major exception ) . |
| 38 | The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all . |
| 39 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 40 | The British Crime Survey suggests that one in four crimes are officially reported , although sociologists and criminologists suggest that between 10 and 15 per cent is a more probable figure . |
| 41 | According to Shanan ( 1987 ) , irrigation efficiencies are so low that between 35 and 45 per cent of the water entering the canal system never actually reaches the fields ; losses are due to evaporation and unlined drainage ditches . |
| 42 | Christiansson ( 1988 ) reports that between 1973 and 1983 , 11 400 ha of land were reclaimed under the auspices of this project which includes educational projects and a policy of livestock destocking . |
| 43 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 44 | For example , Myers ( 1986 ) states that between 1947 and 1980 Nepal 's forest cover declined from 57 per cent to 23 per cent , but Mahat et al. 's ( 1986a , b , 1987a , b ) work in the Middle Hills of Nepal ( Sindhu Palchok and Kabhri Palanchok districts ) suggests a different spatial and temporal pattern . |
| 45 | Clarke and Morrison report data on soil erosion , collected between 1978 and 1983 from a 5–8' slope at Seaqaqa , which show that between 15 and 20 cm of soil were lost over the site as a whole , which is equivalent to an annual overall loss of , and that the soil became more compacted with a loss of organic matter . |
| 46 | These local impressions are confirmed by the national returns which show that between 1911 and 1914 , the major occupational group to which boys were sent was conveyance of goods , men , and messages , followed by metals and commercial employment ; ( for girls , the major employers were dress , outdoor domestic work , and food , tobacco , drink , and lodging ) . |
| 47 | In terms of employment , the corporation argues that between 1981 and 1987 about 10,000 jobs were brought into the area . |
| 48 | I 've mentioned that between the house where we lived , Number Forty Eight Culver Street and Number Forty Six were two large double doors , giving access to ‘ The Cellar ’ which not only ran under both houses but also under Numbers Fifty and Fifty Two . |
| 49 | I remember that between a death and the subsequent funeral the street would be very quiet , pianos were locked , children were not allowed to play anywhere near the house and on the day of interment , all blinds were drawn , whilst as the cortege made its way to the Cemetery people would stop , the men always removing headgear . |
| 50 | Some of the between species correlations are just as high , that between barn owls and long-eared owls ranging from 0.877 to 0.987 , and this illustrates very well the similarity in pattern between these and other owl species which have low levels of breakage . |
| 51 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 52 | The only reliable difference in Table 1 is that between the pooled combining conditions , and versus with : by a chi-square test , . |
| 53 | Other breeding season records , however , indicate that between five and 10 pairs probably breed in most years . |
| 54 | A study by the Institute of Employment Research at Warwick University showed that between 1985 and 1990 Britain can expect to lose a further 340 000 jobs directly as a result of microelectronic innovations . |
| 55 | If spread over the whole of the department 's research budget , the shortfall in the two areas would mean that between 25 and 40 per cent of the cash allocated for 1982–83 has remained unspent . |
| 56 | Within these were many divisions ; and the second and third , in particular , obscure one of the great barriers , that between freedom and unfreedom , to which we must return . |
| 57 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 58 | Pausing mid-way he looked down and could notice that between the cracks of the wood and the holes of the ferrous nails , lay the stream , flowing as a solid conjecture , broken rarely by the spinning vortex of wheeling , eddy and ripple . |
| 59 | One observer estimated that between the east and the west — that is , between the old Russian provinces and the old German provinces of partitioned Poland — there existed a socio-economic gap of experience and development of 50–100 years . |
| 60 | I would say that between the ages of 12 and 25 , he was the big-shot . |