Example sentences of "of the total [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visible light occupies only a very small part of the total range of wavelengths , or ‘ electromagnetic spectrum ’ . |
| 2 | alter the type face , fount , etc. of any characters ( within the limits of the total range of faces , founts , etc. demanded by the dictionary text ) |
| 3 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 4 | Treaty , and in particular with articles 7 and 30 , of the distribution between national quotas of the total volume of catches available to the Community , see Romkes v. Officier van Justitie ( Case 46/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 2671 , 2687–2688 , paras . |
| 5 | The market here is probably around 500,000 holidays a year ( 5 per cent of the total volume of holidays ) . |
| 6 | In essence each region or district gets its share of the total amount of funds available on the basis of the size of the population served , weighted to take account of the use different sections of that population can be expected to make of the service . |
| 7 | As we discussed in Chapter 2 three cases ( out of 114 ) had one-third of the total number of pages devoted to rape cases , while nine cases had over half . |
| 8 | This is ‘ % of the total number of researchers . |
| 9 | This is ‘ % of the total number of researchers . |
| 10 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 11 | The packing density referred to here is measured in terms of the total number of records , both in the prime and overflow areas , divided by the prime data storage capacity only . |
| 12 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 13 | In 1975 , one-third of the total number of members covered by occupational pension schemes were in schemes which had equal pension ages and they hoped that even without legislation this number would be increased by negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) Subject to subsection ( 9 ) and ( 13 ) below , a licensing board shall consist of not less than one-quarter of the total number of members of the district or islands council and in no case shall consist of less than five such members . |
| 15 | For each site the coins were divided up into different periods and expressed as a percentage of the total number of coins recovered . |
| 16 | These financial burdens are magnified in the absence of other important sources of finance , and it is hardly surprising to find 99 per cent of the total number of firms going bankrupt located in the small firm sector . |
| 17 | First , there is no consistent trend in the number of strikers who receive supplementary benefit as a proportion of either those who are ‘ eligible ’ , or as a proportion of the total number of strikers in any one year . |
| 18 | The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike . |
| 19 | Out of a total response of 1,397 , the following pattern of submissions emerged with regard to category of respondent : Employed solicitors were included in the ‘ other ’ category as they constituted such a small percentage of the total number of respondents . |
| 20 | Calvin Hall 's large survey of dream content showed that only about a third of the total number of dreams reported contained references to colour . |
| 21 | But blackspots remained : one third of the total number of houses in Manchester , for example , were classed as unfit at the outbreak of war . |
| 22 | The ratios of the total number of mice exhibiting recombinant to the total number of mice analysed for each pair of loci and the most likely order are : centromere — Acrg — 1/77 — Oct-11b — 0/59 — Bcl-2 — 4/127 — En-1 . |
| 23 | The server market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of at least 21% up to 1997 — growing from 34% of the total number of systems shipped and 18% of manufacturers ' revenue in 1992 to 67% and 34% , respectively , by 1997 . |
| 24 | The server market where NT will be deployed is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of at least 21% up to 1997 — growing from 34% of the total number of systems shipped and 18% of manufacturers ' revenue in 1992 to 67% and 34% , respectively , by 1997 . |
| 25 | Fragments of building debris can form a large part of the total number of finds from a site . |
| 26 | In 1953–54 nearly 40% of all male students were classified as manual workers ; men as a whole made up 45% of the total number of students . |
| 27 | It is , however , worth noting that the number of public companies , and their proportion of the total number of companies , is significantly higher in other member states , so that this may in time be of concern to a UK company with a subsidiary in another member state . |
| 28 | In the first half of 1991 , company insolvencies reached 10,833 ( 4.0 per cent of the total number of companies registered at Companies House ) compared with 6,549 ( 2.7 per cent ) in the equivalent period a year earlier . |
| 29 | In general , company liquidation rates ( insolvencies as a proportion of the total number of companies ) are higher than personal sector repossessions in relation to the number of mortgages outstanding . |
| 30 | However , the number of self-injuries identified in Edinburgh through referrals to the Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre may have been an underestimate of the total number of cases referred to hospital ( Kreitman 1977 ) , and , in addition , a high proportion of patients with self-injuries may not be referred to hospital at all ( Kennedy and Kreitman 1973 ) . |