Example sentences of "[n mass] of [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five sub-species of salmon from the Columbia river and its tributary , the Snake , are likely to join US official lists as endangered species . |
| 2 | I would say ninety five percent of people in the village are employed at the local colliery . |
| 3 | A new poll commissioned by the Birth Control Trust showed that 82pc of people in the province thought abortion should be legal where it was necessary for the physical or mental health of the woman . |
| 4 | Microsoft 's selling costs amounted to 33% of sales in the nine months to the end of March , up from 27% three years earlier . |
| 5 | A function which reads a byte of data from the file opened as " fnum " , from the position pointed to by PTR#fnum . |
| 6 | Sales of shellfish from the Charente-Maritime , Vendée and Gironde regions of western France were banned after they were found to be contaminated with an unidentified toxin . |
| 7 | It lost £270,000 on sales of £6.7m in the year to December 1989 , and lost £935,000 on £5.7m sales the previous year . |
| 8 | Continental units lost $14m on sales of $140m over the last nine months . |
| 9 | Skipjack is the most abundant species of tuna in the area , and , like albacore , can be caught without killing dolphins . |
| 10 | The diversity of form and behaviour among the several thousand species of fish in the world is enormous , but there are probably just two , very different , examples of tool use among them . |
| 11 | There are about 30,000 species of fish in the world and some 250 of these are actively venomous , possessing spines and venom glands . |
| 12 | You can also include other species of fish in the community tank , that is non-cichlids . |
| 13 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 14 | Their largest retail client is Argos which accounted for over £400,000 of sales in the last year . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'm not prepared to have this new expansion with all the congestion and noise it would cause and 90pc of people in the area will be up in arms . |
| 16 | It will be offered at a price of $70million-plus into a booming sector of the market for civil aircraft , which is expected to generate $110billion of sales by the year 2005 . |
| 17 | I place the chosen pair of fish in the spawning tank in the early evening . |
| 18 | For example , in 1900 anglers caught 30,000 kg of salmon in the seven main rivers in southern Norway , but since 1970 no salmon have been taken . |
| 19 | The second exhibition gives carte blanche to the film director Peter Greenaway who has chosen a series of works on the theme of flight , presented in a highly spectacular way . |
| 20 | Edward Ruscha , another artist whose non-visual vocabulary is often on view in his paintings , did a series of works in the Sixties and Seventies he called ‘ Liquid Words ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps the best example is Chris Yates ' carp of 5½lb on the N.A.S.A . |
| 22 | list and Dick Walker 's carp of 44lb on the N.A.C. list . |