Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 2 | He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As well as allowing us to buy priority tickets and get away tickets , you get a quite nice yearbook ( 3.5 quids worth ) , 10% of goods from the shop and discounts from home games . |
| 5 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 6 | The frequency of agents found in our patients was similar to those reported in earlier studies from Western Europe and the USA , except for cryptosporidium which was detected in 5% of our patients , ina bout 10% of patients in the USA , but in more than 20% of patients in Great Britain and France . |
| 7 | Mr McCartney said a survey revealed that 40pc of households in the estate had no car and 60pc could not afford an annual holiday . |
| 8 | It is an international trade association whose members include distributors , importers , processors , UK and overseas manufacturers , and UK agents ; and it currently represents over 90% of suppliers to the UK market . |
| 9 | That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin . |
| 10 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will suspend operations at two factories in Takasaki and Tomioka , east Japan , for a total of three days in May and August because of falling capital investment by banks : for those three days , Oki will pay 90% of wages to the 3,100 employees ; the Tomioka plant produces computer systems and equipment for financial institutions while Takasaki makes general information and communications equipment and printers . |
| 11 | Only 13% of antral tumours were surrounded by histologically normal mucosa compared with over 50% of tumours in the cardia . |
| 12 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 13 | An estimated 50% of women in the world who want to stop having children are able to fulfil that wish by these means . |
| 14 | Well over 50% of restaurants in the UK now include English wines on their lists . |
| 15 | The project is contained in a Scottish Office consultation document proposing £200m-plus of improvements to the trunk road system south of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 18 | In a related move Union Carbide will sell £500m of assets in the next 18 to 24 months to reduce its debt ratio . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there remains a high risk of fetal damage in offspring of women with the disease , and the possibility that the diets themselves may be harmful can not be excluded . |
| 21 | 68% of respondents in the first survey thought televising would ‘ make MPs improve their behaviour ’ , but this declined to 48% after three months of the experiment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Watertown , Massachusetts-based American Superconductor Corp signed a joint development agreement with Hoechst AG on techniques for making superconducting wires : American Superconductor will get $1.8m from Hoechst over 18 months to speed development and manufacture of high temperature superconductor wires and the German will invest at least another $2m on the programme at its own plants in Frankfurt ; the US firm will also contribute $2.5m of assets to the joint venture and will retain all manufacturing and marketing rights in North America and Mexico ; in Europe , the two will establish operations for joint manufacture and marketing of wires . |
| 24 | COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second . |
| 25 | Massed Pipes & Drums The Scots Guards — 350 Years The Massed Pipes and Drums together with the Pipes and Drums from Adelaide University , Australia Massed Scottish Dancers The Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines The Band , Pipes and Drums and Corps of Drums of the Scots Guards Music of the Massed Military Bands |
| 26 | Then we all moved out to watch the ceremony of Beating Retreat by the Band and Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 27 | Pipe Major Tom Buchanan and the Boys and Girls of Monkstown Mossley School Band had a glorious day when they took second prize and Best Corps of Drums in the Novice Juvenile Band section . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In a mean of thirty percent of patients across the region there was evidence o well there was written evidence of counselling for retrograde ejaculation and this varied from zero to just under seventy one percent . |
| 30 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |