Example sentences of "[adv] [num] of [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four-year-olds have only four-fifths of the talking skills , social experiences and physical development that five-year-olds have behind them . |
| 2 | Jones 's international commitments ( he departs for Australia 's three-Test tour of Sri Lanka in August ) will limit him to only four-fifths of the county season with Durham , but Graveney added : ‘ His attitude to this situation is brilliant . |
| 3 | Only three of the muster books provide the information necessary to relate assessed wealth to status and occupational groups . |
| 4 | Only three of the electricity companies gave satisfactory advice . |
| 5 | Only three of the manuscript diaries now survive ( out of an original total of about thirty ) , and these have been published in their entirety , two by the National Library of Wales ( 1982 and 1989 ) and one by Alison Hodge ( 1989 ) . |
| 6 | The report highlights as a major problem the fact that only three of the works staff were in post at the time of the inspection . |
| 7 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 8 | A recent survey showed that in a rural area only two-fifths of the child population between the ages of 6 and 14 was enrolled in school . |
| 9 | The railway lines to Prome and Mandalay are working again but it is hard work with only 1/5 of the number of pre-war engines , and only 1/3 of the goods wagons and hardly any of the passenger coaches . |
| 10 | The vote on the constitution as a whole occurred on 19 November , and only ten of the Council fathers voted against it . |
| 11 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 12 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 13 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 14 | In fact , only fifteen of the Leicester Mercury 's 137 incidents appeared in the FA 's total of 116 . |
| 15 | Peter Joseph Lenne was only one of the landscape planners and artists who left their mark in this biggest and best known park of Berlin . |
| 16 | Only one of the soldiers Dr Haritos-Fatouros interviewed said the use of torture was justified . |
| 17 | The presence of resistor R24 ensures that the oscillation falls very quickly to zero , hence the input to IC7 vanishes and only one of the scoring sequence of l.e.d.s remains on . |
| 18 | The protein interacts with only one of the DNA strands and based on the fact that the complementary strand competes for binding it would appear to have little affinity for the double stranded form of the oligonucleotide . |
| 19 | Under conditions of nonlimiting H 2 concentrations ( a ) , D. desulfuricans reduced Fe(III) and sulphate simultaneously at rates comparable to Fe(III) and sulphate reduction when only one of the electron acceptors was provided . |
| 20 | Only one of the physics students , had , for example , considered taking a degree in chemistry . |
| 21 | Er only one of the channel classes is inhibited . |
| 22 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 23 | The development plan is only one of the material considerations , and its policies and assumptions may be out of date . |
| 24 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 25 | The three characteristics were : an OBS score of eight or more , living alone , and without a closely involved informal carer ( only one of the control sample clients still at home at one year possessed all three of these characteristics ) . |
| 26 | Only one of the control subjects was similarly positive , and this sample was from the upper lobe of a lung with clear apical capping suggestive of old asymptomatic infection with M tuberculosis . |
| 27 | In deference to the generator , presumably , only one of the table lamps was lit , giving the room a shadowy , ghostly look . |
| 28 | Only one of the identifier sections on the form should be completed when specifying a range of entries and the same identifier should be used for both the Start and Finish of the range . |
| 29 | Only one of the identifier sections on the form should be completed when specifying a range of entries and the same identifier should be used for both the Start and Finish of the range . |
| 30 | He is a most inspiring chap , obviously one of the Montgomery school , but toned down by his service with the Guards . ’ |