Example sentences of "[noun sg] was of the order " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 2 | Taking all sources of error into account Crowson concluded that the total error in using the tube was of the order of 5 per cent . |
| 3 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 4 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 5 | If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions . |
| 6 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 7 | Hess thought that the spreading rate at the ocean ridge was of the order of one centimetre per year . |
| 8 | Holland has estimated that the rate of iron deposition in this basin was of the order of 20 mg Fe . |