Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 2 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 3 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 4 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 5 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 6 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |
| 7 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 8 | If 1 have concentrated on just a few of these predictions this is , in part , because several of those neglected are not unique to the conditioned attention theory and are readily accommodated by its rivals . |
| 9 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 10 | Their success in winning this load ( which formed the bulk of domestic sales ) explains why domestic consumers accounted for almost a third of the Area Boards ' sales in the first ten years , rather more than was typical in other industrialised countries . |
| 11 | In the first Whitehall study risk factors such as age , smoking , systolic blood pressure , height , and plasma cholesterol and blood glucose concentration accounted for about a fifth of the twofold to threefold grade differences in mortality from coronary heart disease . |
| 12 | In the Whitehall II study , differences between subjects in health , health related behaviours , psychosocial aspects of the work environment , and social circumstances outside work accounted for about a third of the threefold to sixfold differences in sickness absence by grade . |
| 13 | Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company . |
| 14 | Greater awareness and/or knowledge of users or communities was mentioned by nearly a fifth of all authorities , in various ways , e.g. : |
| 15 | The cube was described by nearly a third of the pupils in the sample as a " square " . |