Example sentences of "that [adv] a [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 2 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 3 | An estimate for 1802 suggests that only a twelfth of relief recipients were inmates . |
| 4 | It was an opinion that not a few of Gould 's associates would have shared . |
| 5 | As for education , Dr Spufford showed that about a fifth of Cambridgeshire 's villages and minor market towns had a schoolmaster licensed continuously between 1570 and 1620 . |
| 6 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 7 | In summer you 'll need a sun hat to keep the sun off and in winter do n't forget that about a third of body heat is lost through the head so a warm woolly hat is great . |
| 8 | It is thought that about a third of conceptuses fail to develop into an embryo . |
| 9 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 10 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |
| 11 | It must be noted that over a third of causes of severe mental handicap are now known . |
| 12 | Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers . |