Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the number of firms working to full capacity still fewer than one in five it is difficult to be optimistic about any improvements in the short term , ’ he added . |
| 2 | Adopters may receive little warning of an imminent placement , and may have as little as one to two days notice . |
| 3 | As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background . |
| 4 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 5 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 6 | Rainfall is uncertain and varied — drought years may be as many as one in five ; many soils are eroded and soil quality may vary within as little space as a hectare ; even small-scale irrigation may be ineffective as high levels of ‘ run-off ’ prevent the efficient use of water . |
| 7 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 8 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 9 | As many as one in 12 Britons dislike our cross-Channel neighbours with the Welsh topping the league . |
| 10 | As many as one in five motherless children in the NCDS sample of lone-parent families had brothers or sisters living away from home ( Ferri , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | As many as one in three of those who supported the Conservatives last year refused to do so last week . |
| 12 | ONE WOULD not normally think a national awareness day for something which could affect as many as one in three of the population would be necessary . |
| 13 | Christine believes the problem is much bigger than anyone believes and cited a recent study which claimed as many as one in three children suffer some kind of sexual abuse . |
| 14 | As many as one in ten of the babies born on this beach will die here . |
| 15 | It is estimated that as many as one in five people suffers from PMLE . |
| 16 | Is the Minister aware that three annual checks by Welsh trading standards officers discovered that as many as one in five lorries on Welsh roads are overloaded , yet the chance of being checked is one in every 5,000 journeys ? |
| 17 | As we noted earlier , perhaps as many as one in six of the adult population of England had lived in London for part of their lives . |
| 18 | The electorate was steadily expanding during the course of the Stuart century , so that by Anne 's reign perhaps as many as one in four adult males had the right to vote , whilst the passage of the Triennial Act in 1694 meant that those who were enfranchised had the opportunity to make their voice known in frequently contested elections . |
| 19 | Nowadays as many as one in five cars on UK roads is a diesel . |
| 20 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 21 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |