Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're like , we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this |
| 2 | There are about 30,000 species of fish in the world and some 250 of these are actively venomous , possessing spines and venom glands . |
| 3 | According to the classification of Michaelson ( 1900 ) there are eleven families , 152 genera , and some 1,200 species of earthworm throughout the world . |
| 4 | For example , in 1900 anglers caught 30,000 kg of salmon in the seven main rivers in southern Norway , but since 1970 no salmon have been taken . |
| 5 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |
| 6 | True intra-plate rifts , such as the East African Rift System , are characterized by prolonged volcanism and typically exhibit 1–2 km of down-faulting along the crest of substantial crustal upwarps . |
| 7 | Several thousand species of wasp around the world provide for their young in this way . |
| 8 | The diversity of form and behaviour among the several thousand species of fish in the world is enormous , but there are probably just two , very different , examples of tool use among them . |
| 9 | The company plans to install fibre transmission lines along 6600 km of railways in the eastern half of the United States . |
| 10 | A balance can be achieved by exposing the eggs for a moderate time ; for example , a 4 h in vivo exposure accumulates analysable metaphases in 50 80% of embryos at the early morula to early blastocyst stage . |
| 11 | It is remarkable that the river Alde immediately south of Aldeburgh is separated from the sea by only about 50 m of shingle at the narrowest part of the spit , which causes a 17 km ( 11 miles ) deflection of the river . |
| 12 | When attempted , a modified Baerman technique is employed using 50 g of faeces from the rectum . |
| 13 | This could be precipitated by instillation of 210 ml of air into the stomach . |
| 14 | There are about 2,700 species of snake in the world , yet only 50 or so are highly venomous . |
| 15 | There are approximately 3000 species of cricket in the world . |
| 16 | Today there are some 3000 species of flatworm in the world . |
| 17 | Five sub-species of salmon from the Columbia river and its tributary , the Snake , are likely to join US official lists as endangered species . |
| 18 | The men were paid a rate depending upon the nature of the ground and were producing 2½ tons a week , giving a yield of 2–3 cwt. of metal in the ton but none more than 3 . |
| 19 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 20 | I would say ninety five percent of people in the village are employed at the local colliery . |
| 21 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 22 | The all-auto compact offers only one means of control through the DX film cassette coding . |
| 23 | ( iv ) Place 20–40 eggs in 1 ml of medium in the central well of a 60 x 15 mm organ tissue culture dish ( Falcon 3010 ) , and culture under 1 ml of sterile paraffin oil ( BDH lightweight 0.840–0.860 g ) at 37-C in a high humidity gassed incubator ( 5% CO2 in air ) . |
| 24 | Reactor 4 generated 615 MW of electricity during the period after returning from its biennial shutdown for maintenance work . |
| 25 | The Whitechapel Art Gallery showed his work in 1986 and one of his compositions was included in Charles Saatchi 's gift of nine works of art to the Tate Gallery where it was exhibited too briefly before Christmas . |
| 26 | Their composition differs from one species of bacterium to the next . |
| 27 | This is reflected in the pattern of distribution of the indigenous Coniferae , viz. species of Ayathis , Dacrydium and Podocarpus ( sensu lato ) , which are concentrated in such places with one species of Podocarpus on the tops of steep limestone hills . |
| 28 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 29 | They show that er an outer northern route , through Harrogate itself , on most stretches of road , would take less than twenty percent of traffic from the existing road . |
| 30 | This gives a good idea of the rates of deposition and seems effectively to dispose of the idea that Loch Ness might have acquired 1000 m of sediment since the last ice age . |