Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intent on reducing costs by around $400m , Apple Computer is considering sacking around a tenth of its 15,600 workers . |
| 2 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 3 | Thirty six so that was one way of working out a tenth of it but we want a fifth . |
| 4 | German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside . |
| 5 | Before picking out a few of the research findings , which highlight short-comings , I should say that there was a great deal to commend and admire about the response to the Act from individual schools and authorities in very difficult circumstances , not the least of which was the failure of central government to provide any additional resources . |
| 6 | Tom had not reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine without discovering quite a few of them . |
| 7 | By providing around a third of total export value , re-exporting to Europe helped to offset the saturation of the market for woollens in northern and western Europe . |
| 8 | So what numbers could you make just by taking just a few of these and |