Example sentences of "[conj] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the urban areas , where a third of Africa 's population will soon live , tribal loyalties will for the most part diminish , but will for many years exist in parallel with other loyalties . |
| 2 | It could buy this lolly … five chews … or a fifth of a Mars bar |
| 3 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 4 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 5 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 6 | The machines are air-cooled , taking up one tenth of the power and physical space needed by an equivalent IBM mainframe , for around 1/5th of the overall cost of ownership over three years , or a third of the price of a VAX 9000 , according to HP figures . |
| 7 | It 's not a third of metre , a third of a millimetre or a third of a kilometre , it 's just a third , the ratio of that length to that one . |
| 8 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 9 | It 's not even going to be worth half of that , or a third of that let's say . |
| 10 | So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box . |
| 11 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 12 | But in mid-February it complained that a fifth of primary schools are offering sub-standard teaching in reading . |
| 13 | Writing in 1959 and with reference to Peter Townsend 's calculation that a fifth of the population had not shared in the general improvement in living standards since the war , Roy Jenkins argued : |
| 14 | Indeed , Utting revealed that a fifth of the elderly population was at or below official subsistence level . |
| 15 | For some it might be fear of violence ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of the lone mothers in their study said violence was a factor in the marital breakdown ) . |
| 16 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 17 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 18 | A survey by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals found that a fifth of eligible students applied for help from the government-funded Access Fund last academic year . |
| 19 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 20 | Joseph Rothschild points out that in the inter-war period , the whole of Eastern Europe , excluding Russia , produced only eight per cent of European industrial production and that a third of that came from Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | John Mather , chief geochemist at the British Geological Survey , warns that a third of our tapwater could exceed nitrate levels within a few decades . |
| 22 | If an author says that a third of the present holders of dukedoms in Britain have been divorced we want to know how he found this out . |
| 23 | When Air ( meaning river ) Sugihan was chosen as a transmigration site no one noticed that a third of elephants lived there . |
| 24 | The Civil Justice Review found that a third of banks and building societies , and a fifth of local authorities , did not enquire about the debtor 's circumstances before the hearing . |
| 25 | Finding that a third of the track and half the stations accounted for only 2% of traffic , he began a drastic programme of closures . |
| 26 | A Crookes spokeswoman said : ‘ Bedtimers was launched after research showed that a third of parents gave their children adult hot chocolate drinks . |
| 27 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 28 | When Bath members mentioned that a third of their stand was kept for non-club members , the stewards disappeared , returning several minutes later with tickets which were then issued . |
| 29 | A survey in 1982 found that a third of the left-wing Labour councillors either worked for another local authority ( including teachers ) or were full-time councillors living off their allowances . |
| 30 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |