Example sentences of "[pron] [is] a [adj] of " in BNC.

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1	Of the 36 errors , there were 13 occurrences of the substitution error , which is a third of the total .
2	‘ Private companies are spending £2.2bn a year on their employees ’ health care , which is a tenth of the National Health Service budget of £22bn , ’ he said .
3	I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’
4	Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ?
5	There 's a few of them damaged but , but erm I think we 've repaired most of them .
6	I do n't mind if there 's a few of you .
7	it 's a soap story you know , there 's a few , there 's a few of erm Sons and Daughters in it Jimmy mind , there 's loads of Sons and Daughters in it
8	Oh there 's a few of them yeah , right
9	There 's a there 's a few of them around in London .
10	so erm you 'll find that there 's a predominant of suggestions of slide lectures here if you hate doing them there 's no reason on earth why you should !
11	Cos this is important and it can be confusing and , and there is t er there is a little of a paradox in here , which will come out even more clearly next week , oh no the week after .
12	In the urban dialect of Belfast , as in most varieties of English , there is a word-class of / ? / consisting of items such as cut , mud , fun .
13	‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’
14	Actor , film maker , entrepreneur , he 's a many of many parts , including , for example , an association for the past seventeen or eighteen years with the University of Sussex .
15	Or what 's a fifth of it ?
16	Urgh what 's a tenth of three hundred and sixty ?
17	Or how , what 's a fifteenth of three hundred and sixty ?
18	What is a tenth of three sixty ?

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