Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 2 | For example while Denmark had saved 30% and France 25% of energy in the industrial and housing sectors the UK had managed only 17% . |
| 3 | Because saliva contains relatively high concentrations of alkali , accounting for about 3% of bicarbonate within the oesophagus , it is important that amylase concentrations measured in oesophageal fluid accurately reflect salivary contamination . |
| 4 | This enables the labour market model to be estimated in both quarterly form and also provides data of interest in the field . |
| 5 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 6 | 20% of farms receiving 80% of support from the E.C . |
| 7 | For Gavarnie is the old headquarters of mountaineering in the Pyrenees , a centre not only for excursionists but for the hard men , aiming for dangerous ascents of the rocks . |
| 8 | With back titration , swallowed saliva accounted for a median 17% of alkali within the oesophagus whereas refluxed gastric alkali contributed 1.0% . |
| 9 | It was in her Renault car , submerged under 20ft of water in the River Severn . |
| 10 | Police in Rotterdam have seized 726lb of cocaine in the biggest-ever haul in Dutch criminal history . |
| 11 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 12 | Coal imports will also increase considerably probably reaching some 20% of demand by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We 're like , we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this |
| 19 | By 8.00am there was 16ft of water in the hold which the pumps could not reduce . |
| 20 | a fish of flame in the shadowy |
| 21 | People with higher incomes will have their age allowance reduced by £1 for every £2 of income above the income limit . |
| 22 | The explanation for this is partly cultural — the legendary loyalty of the Japanese employees ( and bearing in mind that an estimated 75% of misuse in the West is carried out by insiders ) ; and partly technical — the current predominance of internal networks . |
| 23 | Thieves took £4,000 of equipment from the site of a McDonald 's restaurant in Green Street , Hartlepool . |
| 24 | The Board made it clear that ‘ if a School Board is resolved upon , the arrangement by which the Company now pay rates upon their cottage property will be terminated , and that the rates will have to be paid by the tenants themselves : On the other hand , if the Board is not decided upon , the Company will combine with the remaining £4,000 of assessment in the Parish with a view of providing a small Infant School at Old Bradwell . |
| 25 | The planned partial flotation of Optus Pty Ltd , Sydney , Australia — expected to raise about $100m and release at least 5% of equity in the company — has been deferred until at least late 1994 : the reason for the delay is said to be to gain more detailed information about market share splits between Optus and the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp , says the Australian Financial Review . |
| 26 | The new business accounted for 30% of employment on the site in 1986 , growing from zero in 1984 . |
| 27 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 28 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ The killings at Castlerock are a further grim addition to the statistics of terrorism of the past few days . |
| 30 | Deane and Cole have pointed out that the statistics of migration during the early industrial revolution suggest little in the way of a south-to-north population drift : " What is surprising is the comparatively minor role played by migration in the early development of the main industrial areas . " |