Example sentences of "almost a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 32 | From the seventh month onwards there is a marked increase In weight and by the end of that month it is about two thirds of the length and almost a third of the weight which it will achieve by birth . |
| 33 | The laity contributed about £500,000 in subsidies throughout the reign , almost a third of this figure within the space of four years . |
| 34 | In 1983 , for example , the Conservatives won almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons with less than half the nation 's backing and a modest 30.8 per cent of the total electorate , while the Labour Party won almost a third of the seats with only 27.6 per cent of the votes . |
| 35 | Many schools devote almost a third of the allotted time for each lesson to these exercises . |
| 36 | Some schools had no unauthorised absentees in either June or November , while a few schools recorded almost a third of the pupil roll as unauthorised absentees in June . |
| 37 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Leicester almost a third of all women workers and almost 20 per cent . |
| 38 | The new party was expected to be the main opposition grouping in the colony 's reformed legislature , which was to have almost a third of its members chosen by general election [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 39 | Interestingly , almost a third of those exhibiting in the contemporary section , have either studied or taught at Goldsmiths ' College . |
| 40 | Malt Whisky : There are 27 distilleries producing almost a third of the total industry capacity . |
| 41 | Universal kerbside collection schemes could collect up to 5.5 million tonnes a year , almost a third of total household waste , but the cost would come to £196 per household a year , even if every single household took part . |
| 42 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 43 | Almost a third of the population 300 million people use their bicycles for local travel . |
| 44 | Remarkably almost a third of the readers were from outside Wales , a similar proportion came from Aberystyth itself , and the rest of Wales accounted for 40pc . |
| 45 | Intel profits last year rose almost a third to $819 million after tax on sales of $4.78 billion , up a fifth on 1990 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Operating profits are up by almost a third to more than two hundred and sixty million pounds |
| 48 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
| 49 | The distribution of the fertility of council tenants was different : three times as many — almost a third in all — had four children or more , higher than the average manual working-class pattern . |
| 50 | Following a doubling of losses in the fourth quarter to $8.8m ( 1991 : $4.4m loss ) , the deficit in European territories at the full year was up by almost a third from $27.7m to $36.7m . |
| 51 | However , the largest increase is recorded in the North , where the number of home-owners has risen almost a third from 48pc in 1981 , to 61pc in 1991 . |
| 52 | It was a cheap , ready-made form of hedging , but if took up almost an eighth of the cleared land and remained an unfortunate legacy for succeeding farmers . |
| 53 | The Reverend Arthur Young was by far the strongest critic , particularly of the retention of ‘ shaws ’ of natural woodland as field boundaries , not surprising since they took almost an eighth of a field acreage of the Weald : |