Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attractions of the 180 km of pistes escaped her entirely , but she was mad keen on the 57 ski lifts . |
| 2 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |
| 3 | Although the total catch of small cetaceans is only a small proportion of the total landings of fisheries products in Peru , for some ports the landings of dolphins may be very significant . |
| 4 | The total milk yield might seem small in comparison with that of a Holstein at an average of more than 4,000kg per lactation , but the solids content is very high , with an average 5.3 per cent butterfat , so that the total yield of solids compares favourably . |
| 5 | At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small . |
| 6 | But if the total variety of creatures is so great and the |
| 7 | But , it must be stressed , this is not a call for the total abolition of animals from the research laboratory . |
| 8 | Instead , the Partnership Programmes consisted largely of lists of social , economic , recreational and other projects for formal Partnership approval , which was usually forthcoming subject to the total availability of resources . |
| 9 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 10 | However , our conservation laws tell us that we can achieve just half of the total permutations of corners and edges , just half of the total flips of edges and just one-third of the total twists of corners , so we can achieve just one-twelfth of the above numbers , yielding 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible patterns for the cube . |
| 11 | After a survey of 140 local authorities , the RIBA concluded that the total backlog of repairs and maintenance work to the public sector housing stock was in excess of £10 billion . |
| 12 | An alternative way of examining harmonic distortion is to display the total spectrum of frequencies on an oscilloscope ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 13 | The total cost of incentives to the taxpayer for private forestry in 1988 was approximately £20 million . |
| 14 | Obtain the total cost of products used in the package from trial data based on consumption and price . |
| 15 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 16 | Yet paradoxically , the conditions governing award of a pension should encourage the older people to continue working in order to reduce the total cost of pensions , and thus the scheme adjusted to the differing capacities of individuals to work in old age . |
| 17 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 18 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 19 | ITEMISED as follows : total cost of the feeder main ; total cost of low pressure main in individual villages , including installing governors ; and the total cost of services to be laid . |
| 20 | The total cost of materials A , B and C purchased . |
| 21 | The total cost of materials A , B and C purchased : |
| 22 | A quick , simple costing exercise revealed that the total cost of accidents was in excess of £1 million per year , and that accidents costing more than £2 million were occurring every two or three years . |
| 23 | The total cost of accidents and failures was around 10% of turnover . |
| 24 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 25 | In theory , but not usually in practice , the total mass of products of a chemical process should equal the total mass of reactants used in the process . |
| 26 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 27 | In theory , but not usually in practice , the total mass of products of a chemical process should equal the total mass of reactants used in the process . |
| 28 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 29 | Proteins , which generally comprise about half the total mass of biomembranes , determine the specific membrane functions . |
| 30 | The possibility that relative antral hypoacidity induced by regular smoking produces an increase in parietal cell mass via a feedback mechanism mediated by gastrin is discussed : such a mechanism would explain the previously reported positive correlation between maximal gastric secretion of acid and the total dose of cigarettes . |