Example sentences of "[verb] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarette smoking causes a third of all cancer deaths . |
| 2 | Remarried women contributed a third to that increase in births . |
| 3 | Certainly too , the size of the big six is significant as they own the equivalent of a quarter of total corporate assets , return a quarter of corporate profits and provide a sixth of national sales ( Sasaki 1981 p.98 ) . |
| 4 | By then , however , the invaders had already occupied a third of the state — which they still hold — before the UN brokered a ceasefire . |
| 5 | The broadcasting levy paid to the Government rose a third to £4.8m . |
| 6 | So I want a third of their their costs . |
| 7 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 8 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 9 | Executives of country 's cable-television channels say a third of their viewers are 18-34-year-olds . |
| 10 | But by extrapolation , I can reasonably expect to find a third of the British insect fauna . |
| 11 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 12 | It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges . |
| 13 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 14 | Under Mr Coates , the British-equity business was put on a sounder basis — first by carefully working out the profitability of each of its institutional clients and , second , by then sacking a fifth of its British-equity team . |
| 15 | A company which claims to train a third of all motorcyclists in the country could be setting up a school at Langbaurgh 's Wheelbase complex at South Bank after winning council support . |
| 16 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 17 | 3 Place a third of the apple mixture in the bottom of a glass bowl and top with a third of the breadcrumbs . |
| 18 | Wetherall , I think , has a first in Chemistry from Sheff . |
| 19 | ‘ Makepeace has a first from Reading , you know . ’ |
| 20 | China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip . |
| 21 | One of the sappers , from a precarious perch a third of the way up the wall . |
| 22 | Sir Jeffrey , who has acted as unpaid and part-time special adviser to six trade and industry secretaries , yesterday added a seventh to his belt . |
| 23 | Craighton added a fifth for Chatteris and Dave Lee netted a consolation goal for the Shrimpers four minutes from time . |
| 24 | Neil Adams added a fourth after the interval . |
| 25 | Neil Adams added a fourth after the break . |
| 26 | Manville had pruned Hayman 's original shortlist of five to just two names , and added a third of his own choosing from the original dossier . |
| 27 | New boy Gary Peebles added a third for Linfield just before the end but the scoreline did little justice to a spirited Newry side reduced to ten men after the second half dismissal of David Coleman . |
| 28 | Midway through the second half Perry scored Newbridge 's second try from a lineout , and the lock added a third near the end when he supported Fealy 's break . |
| 29 | First fruits and tenths , which had previously gone to Rome , came after 1534 to the King : he received a tenth of the annual revenue of every clerical benefice and a sum equivalent to the whole of the first year 's income of every newly appointed bishop . |
| 30 | Two years later he was again dismissing a third of his hands in a mid-winter lay-off . |