Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 2 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 6 | 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 … . ’ |
| 7 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 13 | Fortunately chic Miss Selfridges fashion , right , is still a big hit with women and while profits from Selfridges the Oxford Street store , soared by nearly an eighth to £5.5 million . |
| 14 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 15 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 16 | But Japan 's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988 . |
| 17 | On the Leicester Abbey estates , of which 75–80 per cent fell within the shire , rent income in 1408 was nearly a fifth lower than in 1341 , and by 1477 had fallen by almost a third on the 1341 figure , despite the fact that the proportion of income obtained from rent as opposed to production had risen . |
| 18 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 19 | In a fringe area , or where distant stations are wanted so that a directional antenna is essential , a rotator can be purchased for quite a modest by today 's standards . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Greater awareness and/or knowledge of users or communities was mentioned by nearly a fifth of all authorities , in various ways , e.g. : |
| 25 | The cube was described by nearly a third of the pupils in the sample as a " square " . |