Example sentences of "one in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DATE : Tuesday 1 October TIME : 0035 SCREENING : ONE IN A MILLION — The Ron Le Flore Story ( 1978 ) |
| 2 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 3 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 4 | The hero of his latest effort — volume one in a series — is Eupolis of Pallene , gentleman farmer , goatherd , and writer of comedies . |
| 5 | She 's a nutter , maybe ; there 's always one in a case . ’ |
| 6 | However , the use of a tranquilliser is a last resort , and is most unlikely to be necessary for more than one in a hundred horses . |
| 7 | Fewer people had receivers : perhaps one in twenty or twenty-five households in Ajdabiya , and perhaps only one in a hundred in Kufra . |
| 8 | The colt is out of a half-sister to Milligram , who is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner One in a Million . |
| 9 | That is especially so when the actor in question can be viewed as a contender for the title of number one in a profession well populated with aggressively chauvinistic egocentrics . |
| 10 | To ‘ mind the baby ’ for a neighbour when the mother is out , or to wheel one in a pram on washing-day and do any necessary errand , will probably mean a square meal or ‘ a mash of tea ’ and some coppers , as well as discarded garments , if the neighbour 's husband is in good work . ’ |
| 11 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 12 | Only one in a thousand had bathrooms in their houses . |
| 13 | Eventually we end up with samples of people who have had children baptized at two Anglican churches , one in a middle-class area , the other in a working-class area , over the past year . |
| 14 | two in boxes and one in a house loft ; between them they fledged a total of 24 chicks in 14 months . |
| 15 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 16 | The chance of this happening is approximately one in a 1,000 for vasectomy , and one in 500 for female sterilisation . |
| 17 | As soon as you arrive home , or between interviews ( if you have more than one in a day ) , and while the interview is still fresh in your mind , head a piece of paper with the date , place and name of the job you were applying for . |
| 18 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 19 | I first came across Method One in a Knitmaster manual . |
| 20 | ‘ A tweed one in a mackintosh hat . |
| 21 | Today we know such periodicity is governed by two biological clocks , one in a physiological tide of the host and the other entrained in the primitive nervous system of the microfilaria . |
| 22 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 23 | Veteran John Sheard took division one in a very closely fought competition , while Jill Gardiner took the division one women 's event . |
| 24 | On this computer simultaneous addition or subtraction may also be performed on corresponding halves or thirds of two words , one in a processor register and one in a store location . |
| 25 | The number who were able to tell us … was just one in a hundred-fifteen . |
| 26 | And because it is just one in a hundred , that one is going to be different in one way or another , or he or she would not bother to buy . |
| 27 | There , less than one in a hundred died . |
| 28 | It would seem , then , that girls , who outnumber boys by about four to one in A level French , are at an advantage ; if subject choice is so clearly related to career , then those women with modern language qualifications should be occupying important positions in industry . |
| 29 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 30 | But even if it were true it would n't be the sort of fact to interest one in a person , would it ? ’ |