Example sentences of "of [n mass] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory . |
| 2 | The Protocol also grant concessions to ‘ developing countries ’ , allowing the use of 0.3kg of CFCs per person , per year , for a maximum of ten years , but does not make it clear which developing countries are eligible . |
| 3 | The present Teacher Placement Service structure became operational during 1989 and began to translate its bold target of 10% of teachers receiving industrial placements each year into a reality . |
| 4 | Interest earned on the £331m raised for William Hill offset the loss of £9.6m of profits . |
| 5 | Why did the manner of its interpretation mirror the existing grammar school education of 20% of twelve-year-olds rather than the needs of the rest , the majority ? |
| 6 | At week four the histological appearance of the biopsy specimens of 39% of patients receiving prednisolone had improved , compated with 19% in the fluticasone propionate group ( p=0.004 ) . |
| 7 | Holders of £435m of bonds will be offered A and B bonds with a similar repayment schedule . |
| 8 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 9 | Even in the years immediately following the Second World War , when its manufacturing capacity was weak by any standards , the UK 's net exports of manufactured goods ( the surplus of sales of manufactures after deducting imports of such goods ) was 8.6 per cent of the country 's output ( GDP ) while net imports of primary products were 11.4 per cent of GDP . |
| 10 | The bulk of sales of dailies and periodicals here is not at the news stands , but via annual subscriptions which normally have to be renewed by 1 October . |
| 11 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 12 | Among the most popular uses of such POI systems is the support of sales of cars , furnishings , jewellery and leisure electronics goods . |
| 13 | A session of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of CIS Armed Forces which met on Nov. 18 was , however , unable to reach agreement on a specific list of units which should comprise CIS strategic forces under the new definition . |
| 14 | Subjects covered include : assistance for privately let housing ; disposal of land ; assistance to voluntary organisations under Section 65 of the Health Service and Public Health Act 1968 ; transfer of staff of homes ; local authority capital finance ; promotion of bodies to acquire homes ; controls on local authority companies ; compulsory competitive tendering ; and restrictive trade practices . |
| 15 | For example , the West Midlands Regional Health Service has set itself the target of achieving a minimum of 33% of women non-executive directors who will advise on and develop the Regional Health Authority 's policy . |
| 16 | Another 7% had a mass palpated before imaging , giving a total of 87% of cases that were diagnosed clinically . |
| 17 | The crowd at Darlington 's home game bought a total of £150-worth of tickets for the prize draw , and organisers say the warm reception they received helped them endure the icy conditions . |
| 18 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 19 | Mild dullness is rejected fully , in favour of hysterical chauvinism and loads of graphics of ducks . |
| 20 | Since 1923 , on Barro Colorado Island the numbers of species of reptiles , amphibians and birds have fallen since the effect of the secondary habitats associated with agriculture , prevalent there beforehand , has diminished . |
| 21 | As well as housing thousands of species of algae , fish and molluscs , the sea grass generates oxygen and has been dubbed the " lungs of the sea " . |
| 22 | This is exactly what a number of species of birds have done — golden eye , European starling , moorhen and North American cliff swallow among them . |
| 23 | While many hitherto disinterested onlookers could , perhaps , stomach the loss of several insect species ( even dragonflies and butterflies ) , there were few who were not moved by the prospect of extermination for a number of species of birds . |
| 24 | We look at all the thousands of species of birds , and observe that the vast majority of them do n't use echolocation . |
| 25 | Such a limitation has not obviously affected the evolutionary ‘ success ’ of this type of body pattern , as witnessed by the vast number of species of insects and crustacea alive and flourishing today — but it certainly affects the extent of their behavioural repertoire . |
| 26 | In Mammalia I have also done much having nearly doubled the before known numbers of species of Kangaroos many of them large and noble animals . |
| 27 | The number of species of animals and plants living today runs into millions , and similar numbers of species have probably lived on earth for at least part of the earth 's history . |
| 28 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |
| 29 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 30 | Latin anyway seemed ill suited for the new philosophy , although Linnaeus developed a new dialect of it , rich in adjectives , to provide concise descriptions and names of species of plants . |