Example sentences of "one in three " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in three women over the age of 80 at some time have a fracture of the hip . |
| 2 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 3 | THE BRITISH teenager is happy at home and one in three do not want to leave the parental nest ever , according to a survey carried out by The Indy this week . |
| 4 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
| 5 | This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel . |
| 6 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 7 | One in three Peruvian children is stunted by malnutrition , said the Worldwatch Institute of Washington in a 1989 report , Poverty and the Environment : Reversing the Downward Spiral . |
| 8 | Yet we know fur example that one in four British households in 1989 were comprised of people living on their own and one in three families were single parent families . |
| 9 | About 40,000 men a year undergo vasectomy , but with one in three marriages ending in divorce , increasing numbers are forming new relationships and wanting to have a second family . |
| 10 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 11 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 12 | Turnouts of over 50% in individual wards were almost commonplace , and in only one ward throughout the metropolitan areas ( Elswick , Newcastle upon Tyne ) did fewer than one in three of the electorate go to the polls . |
| 13 | One in three takes a supply of teabags |
| 14 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 15 | In fact , one in three new ventures in the USA is started by people under thirty — the majority of whom are graduates in their early twenties . |
| 16 | A survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau revealed that nearly half of Britain 's working population refuse to think about their retirement , with one in three couples admitting that they never even discuss old age between themselves . |
| 17 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 18 | A more healthy statistic is that British companies account for one in three of the firms selling programs for microcomputers in this country . |
| 19 | Between these extremes comes the chronic depression found to have affected one in three mothers with pre-school age children in a London study of working-class families . |
| 20 | About one in three adults can do this the first time they try it . |
| 21 | By the year 2000 , the Government wants to see one in three school leavers entering a university or college . |
| 22 | Absolutely , says one in three women who took part in our Gallup survey to discover the stresses and strains of juggling it all and how women deal with them . |
| 23 | One in three has consulted their family doctor during the past five years about stress-related symptoms . |
| 24 | Smokers have a one in three chance of dying from their habit due to lung cancer , heart diseases , strokes and a wide variety of other cancers . |
| 25 | ‘ The sad reality is one in three children never sees the other parent again . ’ |
| 26 | But the virus that killed him is so lethal that once it 's in the lungs it kills one in three of its victims . |
| 27 | One in three youngsters could not write two simple sentences with correct punctuation or add or subtract numbers under 10 in their heads . |
| 28 | One in three bosses said candidates were prepared to lie to get the jobs they were after . |
| 29 | One in three households still had no car . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a hell of a job to win one in three games . |