Example sentences of "one in every " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in every four purchases from your local chemist contains compounds derived from rainforest species . |
| 2 | Dixons claims to supply one in every five TV sets sold in the UK — although Mr Kalms once described television ‘ as one of the curses of our society ’ . |
| 3 | ABOUT one in every four of Romania 's 23 million population is thought to be a member of the security service , the Securitate . |
| 4 | Around 1.25 million people in Great Britain suffer from mental handicap , over 2% of the total population , one in every 45 people . |
| 5 | In the case of Down 's Syndrome , where the birth incidence is one in every 700 births ( around 0.8 per 1000 ) , 70–80% are miscarried so the incidence at conception may be one in 200 or higher . |
| 6 | The overall rate of incidence is one in every 800 live births , which means that around seven to eight hundred Down 's babies are born every year . |
| 7 | But the incidence of Down 's is such that a process of integration would only involve one child with Down 's entering one in every 20 classes in normal primary schools . |
| 8 | The handicap known as cerebral palsy affects around one in every 500 births . |
| 9 | The group affect around one in every 500 children born with around 1,200 births in 1982 ; the numbers of such births are falling partly because they are identifiable in screening programmes , and the mothers are taking what they consider to be appropriate actions , and partly due to higher standards of antenatal care . |
| 10 | In mothers of under twenty , there is only one chance in 2,400 that the child will have Down 's Syndrome ; this rises to one in every 100 when the mother is over 40 . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear fellow , you could probably find one in every gutter in Naples . ’ |
| 12 | Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65 . |
| 13 | Staff must attend one in every three meetings and they are asked to acquaint themselves with what took place if they were absent . |
| 14 | About one in every 350 American children suffer the disease , which appears to run in families . |
| 15 | By the age of retirement that figure will increase to one in every five . |
| 16 | Around one in every 100 women run the risk of an ectopic pregnancy — where the embryo begins to develop outside the uterus , usually in the Fallopian tubes . |
| 17 | One in every four women here has an abortion every year . |
| 18 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 19 | This was n't the first time the pin in the tower blew out , it used to happen one in every six mixes . |
| 20 | NEWS that one in every nine fatal road accidents involves a stolen car is sickening . |
| 21 | ONE in every nine fatal road smashes involves a stolen car . |
| 22 | Hodgson Holdings was then the biggest quoted funeral director in Britain , handling one in every twenty funerals nationwide , although the Co-op is still the biggest throughout the British Isles , doing about twenty-five per cent of all funerals . |
| 23 | It makes one in every three pairs sold in Marks & Spencer . |
| 24 | between erm oh by the end of the war one in every three dwellings had been demolished . |
| 25 | In this country , one in every three people will develop cancer at some time in their lives . |
| 26 | We recommend that teaching of percentage should be based on the idea that 1 percent means " 1p in every pound " or " one in every hundred " , and not on the use of particular formulae . |
| 27 | Now that means that at the peak , the Communist Party has a working class membership of something like thirty thousand plus , which is one in every hundred industrial workers in China at this time . |
| 28 | Smoking — particularly cigarettes — is the cause of one in every five fatal heart attacks . |
| 29 | Apart from road accidents , cancer is still the major killer of children , with one in every 600 getting some form of the disease . |
| 30 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |