Example sentences of "and [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 2 | John Dutton , a great friend of Oliver Cromwell , was a ‘ learned and prudent man , , according to his contemporary Anthony à Wood , ‘ and as one of the richest , so one of the meekest men in England ’ . |
| 3 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 4 | In Sexual Politics , for example , Kate Millett sees Freud simply as the proponent of a biologistic theory of male supremacy , and as one of the arch-villains in the male plot of patriarchy . |
| 5 | The Barshai Vancouver performance comes , rather confusingly , in two formats — on the CBC Records issue listed above , and as one of the discs in Conifer 's special Woolworth series . |
| 6 | Originally this ‘ voice mail ’ was aimed at short-term retention and as one of the desk-top conveniences of the electronic office . |
| 7 | ( c ) Maintain continuity of employment throughout the working day and between one project and the next . |
| 8 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 9 | And about one British woman in ten is estimated to be suffering from it . |
| 10 | There are twenty-one Anglican churches in Halifax and about half-a-dozen denominations , so Kit Widdows invited them all to take part and about one third took up his invitation and produced a play . |
| 11 | Following the attacks , government troops , composed mainly of members of the dominant minority Tutsi ethnic group , launched a counter-insurgency operation and about one thousand people , mostly Hutu , suspected , usually without evidence , of supporting the insurgents , were killed . |
| 12 | That is many times smaller than crystals of conventional ferric oxide , and about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair . |
| 13 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) in their study of middle-class families , found that about 15 per cent of parent-child relationships were ‘ bad ’ ( as perceived by the child and measured by items such as little or no contact , clear dislike from one party to the other ) and about one third of those examples of ‘ bad ’ relationships concerned mothers and daughters . |
| 14 | During the 1970s for example , this proportion was around 19 per cent for manufacturing firms representing half the West German and about one third of UK or US levels . |
| 15 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 16 | It is about seven miles a second for the earth , and about one hundred miles a second for the sun . |
| 17 | The knees are bent as if one were riding a horse , with the feet parallel and about one yard apart . |
| 18 | About two-thirds provide a generalist advice service , and about one third , general assistance to a specific group of users , ( e.g. women , the elderly , ethnic minority communities ) . |
| 19 | It 's a story about God , and about one man who followed Him . |
| 20 | Yarrell is publishing the British birds quarto size — and about one thousand other niny tiny Works are in progress to assist in the mass of confusion already scattered over the World . ’ |
| 21 | Over seven hundred girls were able to choose from 34 activities on offer , ranging from abseiling and go-karting to spinning and cookery and about one hundred aged between 13 and 20 attended the Medau classes . |
| 22 | Contraceptive precautions should be continued until a woman has a period or any bleeding for two years if ages 45–50 , and for one year if over 50 . |
| 23 | The gulls were wheeling and crying above the parapets of the ornate bridge and for one mad moment I thought that they , too , were engaged in an elaborate mockery . |
| 24 | A man was on his knee next to a woman , and for one wild insane moment Maggie thought he was proposing . |
| 25 | Being mothered by a grandparent was certainly not always a happily remembered experience , and for one illegitimate Scots girl it generated a lifetime of mutual bitterness . |
| 26 | In this case the CS is at one time associated with a US and at another time is not , and for one group of subjects different contextual cues are correlated with these arrangements . |
| 27 | ( Apr 21-May 21 ) In astrology , work and health are curiously linked are curiously linked — and for one reason or another , you are likely to feel under par , under pressure and totally misunderstood at the moment . |
| 28 | It is a major setting for three of his novels ( PP , GE , MED ) being called ‘ Cloisterham ’ in the last of these , and for one of his shorter fictions , ‘ The Seven Poor Travellers ’ ( CS 7 ) . |
| 29 | The Coffee Bar Gallery is open Monday–Saturday 11.00am–5.00pm June–September and for one hour before performances and during the intervals |
| 30 | They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor , and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee . |