Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the EC offered in August 1990 to abolish all support for projects involving aircraft of under 100 seats , and to reduce all other development aid by one-third , the US government threatened in mid-1991 to take the issue to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 2 | The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance . |
| 3 | Bleeding from colonic varices is a rare clinical problem but may account for up to 25% of bleeding ectopic varices , particularly in cirrhotic patients . |
| 4 | ‘ However , with the most recent figures showing less than 40pc of even full-term infants being breast-fed at six weeks , human milk is the standard that milk-manufacturers need to aim at . ’ |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a location for telecommunications headquarters of internationally mobile companies . |
| 6 | If two mountain sheep of markedly different size meet each other , the smaller one will behave as a subordinate and retreat . |
| 7 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 8 | Soon thereafter , Time magazine told its readers that the Milwaukee Project ‘ offers persuasive evidence that mental retardation in the offspring of mentally retarded mothers can be prevented ’ . |
| 9 | Since 84% of apparently localised cancers of the prostate progress if left untreated some centres advocate radical prostatectomy for early cancer . |
| 10 | Bream have strong predatory instincts ( more of this later ) and it would not be safe for bream of only 2 or 3 inches to join a shoal of bigger bream . |
| 11 | The army plan envisages a corps of about 150,000 US troops remaining in Europe . |
| 12 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , each season fish of much greater size are caught and the monsters that made St John 's famous are still there , waiting for your well-presented cast . |
| 14 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |
| 15 | Older children are more likely to be living with step-parents ; 5% of under fives lived with step-parents in 1985 , compared with 12% of those aged 10–15 . |
| 16 | First it is intended to examine the statistics of how young people from different ethnic groups are dealt with by the police and the courts in a city outside London . |
| 17 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 18 | Apart from strictly academic consideration , the ordinary citizen of any modern democracy will find an elementary course in statistics of more general educational value than courses in e.g. differential calculus , which are more popular in science-oriented schools . |
| 19 | Much is heard and read in the media of essentially anecdotal evidence about the apparent interdependence of markets and the existence of a global securities market . |
| 20 | The mass media and particularly television can create the aura of charisma around people of otherwise unexceptional personality . |
| 21 | With reference to old people of over 75 , who are here our main concern , there is a further aspect of ageist stereotyping which is prevalent and regrettable ; that is , the tendency to make negative assumptions about the capacities of individual old people which are not based on a proper appraisal of their state . |
| 22 | Labour Councillors in have crippled Social Services , have reneged on their promises to the people of when one of the biggest lies we 've seen on any political papers in was that they would defend and not close elderly persons homes . |
| 23 | A point which emerges … is the frequency with which the same orders of magnitude keep on recurring among people of widely different technical achievements and inhabiting areas with markedly different physical characteristics . |
| 24 | It is the least satisfactory feature of collegiate universities that for all social and administrative purposes — meals and meetings and life in Common Room — the academics minx not with those who share their intellectual preoccupations but with people of completely different disciplines . |
| 25 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 26 | Occasionally we hear of people of very advanced years who appear and act as if they were in their prime , both mentally and physically . |
| 27 | Such confidence can not safely be reposed in people of very mean or low condition . |
| 28 | The CRE organised a series of three seminars in order to bring together people of very different points of view and evolve a broad consensus on some of the large issues raised by the Rushdie affair . |
| 29 | Part of him wanted to take lessons from people of more decided character . |
| 30 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |