Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 2 | Lone parents now account for 14% of families with dependent children ( it was 8% in 1971 ) . |
| 3 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 4 | Constipation represents a common problem in children , accounting for 3% of visits to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as to a large general paediatric clinic in Boston , but little is known about longterm outcome in young children . |
| 5 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 6 | The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory . |
| 7 | The Protocol also grant concessions to ‘ developing countries ’ , allowing the use of 0.3kg of CFCs per person , per year , for a maximum of ten years , but does not make it clear which developing countries are eligible . |
| 8 | Even in the years immediately following the Second World War , when its manufacturing capacity was weak by any standards , the UK 's net exports of manufactured goods ( the surplus of sales of manufactures after deducting imports of such goods ) was 8.6 per cent of the country 's output ( GDP ) while net imports of primary products were 11.4 per cent of GDP . |
| 9 | The crowd at Darlington 's home game bought a total of £150-worth of tickets for the prize draw , and organisers say the warm reception they received helped them endure the icy conditions . |
| 10 | A well-developed control and distribution system enables the delivery of 95% of orders within three days . |
| 11 | There are various entries in Green 's diaries setting himself a timetable for the completion of series of plates for his publications : - |
| 12 | They came in the form of series of explosions on a far greater scale even than any of the preceding ones , and greater than anything that man has experienced before or since . |
| 13 | he gave the plaintiff judgement for 75% of damages to be assessed and directed that the seat belt issue should be tried separately from quantum . |
| 14 | In total these four risk factors accounted for 89% of deaths from sudden infant death syndrome in Maori infants and 79% in non-Maori infants . |
| 15 | In total these four risk factors may account for 89% of deaths from sudden infant death syndrome in Maori infants and 79% in non-Maori infants . |
| 16 | In the early part of this period most job losses were managed by ‘ natural wastage ’ , with 80% of miners from closed pits being transferred to those that remained open , but the overall loss of employment opportunities was dramatic . |
| 17 | It was part of her prize — along with £1,000-worth of dresses for her four bridesmaids and another £1,000-worth of Young 's clothes hire for husband Paul Wrigley and his attendants . |
| 18 | This bulk billing , as it is called , is becoming increasingly common , with 70% of bills for general practitioners ' services settled accordingly . |
| 19 | Thirty nine per cent of biopsy samples from colitic patients contained β-haemolytic E coli compared with 8% of samples from non-inflammatory bowel disease control patients ( p=0.10 ) ; the distribution of β-haemolytic strains was unrelated to disease severity . |
| 20 | Some people will charge you £600 for a guitar with £50-worth of materials in it . |
| 21 | Some people will charge you £600 for a guitar with £50-worth of materials in it . |
| 22 | In this method the longitudinal scan of the gall bladder is divided into series of cylinders of equal height , with diameters perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the gall bladder image . |
| 23 | As chief executive of the Prudential , Mick Newmarch is the country 's biggest investor , with £35bn of funds under his control . |
| 24 | Also included are investment incentives for certain enterprise zones and a 50% capital gains exclusion for sales of shares of small companies held for five years . |
| 25 | Drinking alcohol is an important part of foreplay for 44% of men in our survey . |
| 26 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
| 27 | If a migraine does begin , it can now be relieved in 80% of cases by Imigram , an injectable drug available on prescription only , which should be available in tablet form soon . |
| 28 | It is interesting to point out that we found in 50% of patients with gastrooesophageal reflux without oesophagitis ( Grade 0 ) , a hypotensive lower oesophageal sphincter which suggests that the decrease in sphincter pressure comes before the inflammatory or tissue damage . |
| 29 | The discriminant analysis function showed that the pretreatment group , group A after challenge , and group B after challenge were correctly classified in 90% of cases by functions based on the individual intraepithelial lymphocyte count and the villous height/crypt depth ratio . |
| 30 | The dose-effect relationship was confirmed by discriminant function analysis of the morphometric variables , which showed that the pretreatment group , the 100 mg/day challenge group , and the 500 mg/day challenge group were correctly classified in 90% of cases by functions including the individual intraepithelial lymphocyte count and villous height/crypt depth ratio ( Fig 5 ) . |