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1How ................... of the rolls have they bought?

2.............. of them.

3As a rule Liz doesn't smoke very ......................, but her husband smokes .........................

4Can I borrow ............... money from you? I could go home by bus then.

5How ................ of the cake have they eaten? .................... of it.

6Do .............. people still attend Sunday mass? I'm afraid not .......... do.

7Hurry up! We have ... time to waste.

8We can send a rocket to the moon in ... days, and to Mars or Venus in ... months; but to send a spaceship to the nearest star would take ... thousand of years.

9Every subject must be simplified if it is to be presented in ... than an hour. Only ... great men can be named, only ... outstanding buidlings or works of art can be used as evidence.

10I am miserably aware of how ... of the original flavour of the play has been lost in the film.

11... students think they have too ... holidays.

12The castles in North Wales were built at great speed. No ... than ten royal castles were started and completed in 18 years.

13I know that in your heart you wish you could help. You wonder if there is ... you can do, and yet there is ... you can do.

14My wife must avoid too ... visitors and anything that might tire her physically. above all she must take ... rest

15The trouble is there's so ... to learn. and the more you learn the ... you know. ... students seem to forget this.

16It's going to be very busy next week. I'm afraid we'll have ... time for pleasure.

17We don't eat ... fruit and even .. fish.

18... words have fixed significations like pure numbers of mathematics or the technical formulas of chemistry.

19The Industrial Revolution started the move to towns. Since then, ... of the rest of humanity has adopted a lifestyle based on town and industry. ... of us lament the transition.

2025 years ago the English produced almost twice as ... lamb and mutton as now.

21In Britain ... than one per cent of us now work on the land.