Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The names and addresses of senior judges in the Irish Republic , together with a document which purports to come from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army , surfaced yesterday as the latest in the series of security leaks , writes David McKittrick . |
| 2 | Sections of the elite Presidential Guard led the army intervention , with the backing of the Chief of Staff , Gen. Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko , a close ally of President Sassou-Nguesso . |
| 3 | In 1990 it is planned to introduce a new Pullman service from Nottingham , an hourly off-peak service to both Nottingham and Sheffield and , by upgrading certain sections of the route for 110mph , a further general acceleration of all trains — unthinkable at the decade 's start . |
| 4 | Talus , the little Texas company with the order for 2,500 NeXT workstations from Russian president Boris Yeltsin ( UX No 381 ) , says the way the order 's written it does n't have to provide NeXT machines , merely computers running NeXTStep : it estimates the value of the order at $25m , but not in cold cash . |
| 5 | There is a heavy price to pay , both in the impact on families and community life , and in the cost to the Treasury of social security benefits — of the order of £100 million per annum for the 11,000 jobs lost . |
| 6 | It was reckoned that , within ten years , 85 per cent of farms could be connected ( enough to satisfy the Minister and ease political pressure ) , though the overall programme would cost £130 millions and result in annual losses of the order of £4 millions . |
| 7 | But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups . |
| 8 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 9 | Our budget er is at the present time overspent er something of the order of £70,000 , and we 're required by the Health Authority and by government , er to manage within our existing cash limited budget . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | First , it was estimated that the annual cost of the scheme to the Council would possibly be of the order of £1.25 million . |
| 12 | Very large warehouse volumes may be involved — Ford , Dagenham is of the order of 225,000m 3 . |
| 13 | The leaf area machines give a quite accurate area measurement of cut leaves , of the order of 5% maximum error for the older machine and 2% for the newer one , under the experimental conditions used here . |
| 14 | Keynes 's lowest estimate for the minimum unemployment rate for interwar Britain was of the order of 5% ( see R. F. Kahn , 1975 ) . |
| 15 | This means that total market turnover per day is now of the order of £4,400 million on average . |
| 16 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 17 | ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’ |
| 18 | If oil in these quantities were to be found China 's production could be double today 's level by the end of the century with a consequent addition to government revenues of something of the order of $10 billion per year . |
| 19 | Two year follow up of those who survived to leave hospital shows that while there is an increased mortality among the elderly this is entirely due to non-hepatic causes and that once survival is corrected for age there is no difference between the two cohorts , being of the order of 55% at one year and 50% at two years . |
| 20 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 21 | They are of the order of mm , and each neuron may have 10 3 to 10 5 such synapses from other neurons on its dendrites and cell body . |
| 22 | However , his average price still increases by 18% in 1991 , while we have a very significant downturn for Italians , while the decreases are of the order of 10% , 18% and 35% for the Flemish , French and Italian drawings respectively . |
| 23 | About was by far the commonest ( about 10 percent of the animals developed the virus ) , and there were a large number of hedges which were used before and after statistics , such as almost 10% , and 10%plus or minus , along with several multiple hedges , such as something of the order of 10% . |
| 24 | It is anticipated that our average fee per hour will be of the order of £ [ ] . |
| 25 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 26 | But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups . |
| 27 | In 15 of 16 subjects studied there was a fall in Vg , and in both control and patient groups this was of the order of 25% ( range , 1.9–66.7% ) . |
| 28 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 29 | Having weighed up all these factors , you are ready to make a preliminary capital budget of the costs of fencing , drainage , water supply , access , fertility , buildings , and farmhouse ; then of the purchase of livestock , machinery , and equipment . |
| 30 | If the 100-μm ridge is associated with the remnant , the latter 's distance could perhaps be better determined by the observation of the ridge at 21cm . |