Example sentences of "[adv] one [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ . |
| 2 | Any given male sang only one or a few of these songs . |
| 3 | For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable . |
| 4 | In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common . |
| 5 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 6 | He then ran a gallant race when third to Linwell in the Mildmay Memorial Chase over three miles five furlongs at Sandown Park , conceding twenty-three pounds to the winner and finishing only one and a half lengths behind him . |
| 7 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 8 | Seven and a quarter million voted , yes , and only one and a half million ‘ no ’ out of an electorate of roughly ten million . |
| 9 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 10 | Only one and a half drops for me . ’ |
| 11 | We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times . |
| 12 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 13 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |
| 14 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 15 | The test of outrage was also considered , and was countered by evidence that in the two years from July 1973 to June 1975 , the film had been shown in 475 cinemas before an audience of approximately one and a half million people without a single complaint to the police or any local authorities until the present case . |
| 16 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 17 | Forrest value at three million pounds while Liverpool have offered just one and a half million for the England international . |
| 18 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 19 | In the spring he finished fourth , just one and a half lengths away from Paris House in the Group Three Palace House Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 20 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 21 | Nearly one and a half millennia later their skills were tellingly displayed in the decoration of Tutankhamun 's golden coffin ( Plate H ) . |
| 22 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 23 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
| 24 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 25 | To produce the single-strand template DNA , time used in each method was : a ) at least one and a half hours ; b ) at least two hours ; c ) only half an hour . |