Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 2 | Victor sucks in a Hooverful of cigar smoke , then strains it out through tight lips . |
| 3 | Already , the official ration provides only a third of people 's needs . |
| 4 | Hib meningitis causes around a third of all cases of bacterial meningitis and is the commonest form in children under four . |
| 5 | Already , the trade provides about a third of the earnings of local fishermen . |
| 6 | Zeke uses maybe a twentieth of his strength . |
| 7 | The company 's price lists explain what features are supplied and what they erect — their general rule of thumb is that the kit and erection represents about a third of the total building costs , excluding land . |
| 8 | The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes about a third of some 3,000 annual meningitis cases and an estimated 250 deaths in England and Wales . |
| 9 | Note that each list gives just a few of the very many uses of the techniques concerned in mathematics learning . |
| 10 | The new plant emits only a third of the carbon dioxide of an equivalent coal-fired plant . |
| 11 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 12 | Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base . |