Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen metres of extremely strenuous 8b+ follow ; the crus arrives in the final eight metres of climbing . |
| 2 | Our study also indicates that αβ T cells are unnecessary for the generation of apparently normal γ T cells . |
| 3 | In Australia , following a period of drought the advent of rain has been shown to rehydrate large numbers of apparently desiccated L3 ( anhydrobiosis ) which then become active and rapidly available to grazing animals . |
| 4 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 5 | In a turnout of only 43.2 per cent , no party gained more than 13 per cent of the vote , producing a severely fragmented legislature . |
| 6 | His achievement of only 7 per cent of the vote was widely seen as a decisive rejection of his racially oriented campaign . |
| 7 | The labour shortage served to drive wages up by 6.4 per cent , against productivity growth of only 3.4 per cent . |
| 8 | Potato farmers everywhere arec having trouble with reports of only thirty per cent of the crop being gathered so far . |
| 9 | Yes , but will the Minister say how he could ever expect to balance exports and imports when the Chancellor has forecast growth of only 1 per cent ; when we have rising unemployment , falling investment and companies going bankrupt ? |
| 10 | The 1.6 per cent increase in CO2 is set against an increase of only 1 per cent in gross domestic product over the year , indicating that the economy became more polluting per unit of wealth created . |
| 11 | With a charge of only 1 per cent , the value would rise to £1,791 . |
| 12 | The rise in wheat consumption slowed markedly since the early 1980s from an increase of 3.5 per cent a year to an average increase of only 2.4 per cent a year . |
| 13 | ‘ Today 's technology allows us to produce an average of only 34 per cent of the oil in the North Sea reservoirs , ’ Astrid commented . |
| 14 | Overall a majority of 34 per cent preferred television for issue-information , while a majority of only 18 per cent preferred television for information about leaders . |
| 15 | Will he explain why , at the hands of his high-tax Government , the car will face total sales taxation of 27.3 per cent. , when its BMW competitor faces tax in its domestic market of only 14 per cent ? |
| 16 | On the other hand , the prison population could be substantially reduced without creating a massive crime wave : if the numbers in prison were cut by 40 per cent , this could be expected to lead to an increase in criminal convictions of only 1.6 per cent . |
| 17 | But this represented an increase in the stock of gold held as reserves of only 17 per cent . |
| 18 | In this election , according to Gallup , Neil Kinnock won the backing of only 44 per cent — virtually the same as in Labour 's disastrous election performance of 1983 . |
| 19 | If you do n't want to pay an annual fee then the Visa card issued by the small Town & Country Building Society is a bargain with an interest charge of only 22.5 per cent compared with average of 28 to 29 per cent charged by most Visa card issuers . |
| 20 | He pointed out that the federal government was directly responsible for determining the prices of only 11.5 per cent of industrial products and 14.5 per cent of retail prices , and concluded from that that the government played only a minor role in generating inflation . |
| 21 | For example , the declining firm needs an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent to compensate for the capital loss of 5 per cent per annum , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a dividend yield of only 2.66 per cent , but this is compensated for by an average annual growth in the share price of 12.34 per cent . |
| 22 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 23 | Even as an interim objective , the idea of a West Bank and Gaza state apparently enjoyed the support of only 50.1 per cent of respondents , while 43.6 per cent preferred to continue the struggle for all Palestine . |
| 24 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 25 | In this case , if the artist receives a 12 per cent royalty , and the producer requires a 2 per cent royalty on record sales , the artist is left with a royalty of only 10 per cent split between the members of the band . |
| 26 | But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent . |
| 27 | In power since 1971 , he is a remarkable survivor among Arab leaders , the more so for being an Alawi — one of only 10 per cent of the Syrian population . |
| 28 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes a merchant in a souk will settle for perhaps a profit of only five per cent , ’ says Mr Latif of the Moroccan Tourist Board . |
| 30 | The present publishers , John Horbury & Associates , had quoted with an increase of only five per cent and they would be retained due to their reliability and flexibility . |