Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey by Proshare-Mori reveals that there are now 9.26m shareholders in Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ At present there are around 3m households supplied with hampers and we are steadily increasing our share . |
| 3 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 4 | There 's also Data Integrity 's Systems Perils Policy , available from any Lloyds broker , for bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 5 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 6 | At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift . |
| 7 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 8 | At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed . |
| 9 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |