Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intent on reducing costs by around $400m , Apple Computer is considering sacking around a tenth of its 15,600 workers . |
| 2 | A fine copy of Pride and Prejudice in original boards , uncut , and with paper labels , can take the buyer into four figures ; a beautiful set in calf or morocco costing perhaps a tenth of that , and one in cloth considerably less still . |
| 3 | The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home . |
| 4 | His report noted the benefits of the machines for enhancing safety and costing just a tenth of ‘ live ’ training , saving millions of pounds . |
| 5 | In front of them stood a microphone on a stand , and then several rows of school chairs filling about a third of the area , though most people sat on the ground . |
| 6 | In the regions much more emphasis was given to MPs contributions to debates , averaging about a third of the total coverage . |
| 7 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 8 | The first year 's trapping suggested that Platycheirus albimanus was the commonest garden hoverfly , forming almost a fifth of the total catch ; a fifth of the species trapped in 1972 were represented by only one individual , and the average number of individuals per species was 29 . |
| 9 | To this end a campaign to grant the status of national park to a large wilderness area comprising about a sixth of the land area of the island is being carried out by the local government of Gran Canaria . |
| 10 | Eleven managers , who are selling around a third of their shares , will be in line for the windfall . |
| 11 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 12 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 13 | By providing around a third of total export value , re-exporting to Europe helped to offset the saturation of the market for woollens in northern and western Europe . |
| 14 | German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside . |
| 15 | Reserving about a third for the piping work later , place the royal icing in a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle . |
| 16 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 17 | While serious psychiatric illness is relatively uncommon after a myocardial infarct , lesser degrees of mild depression and anxiety are common , affecting about a third of all survivors . |
| 18 | The group has dominant market share down-under , taking about a third of Australia 's life insurance business , and needs to look beyond its local market for opportunities . |
| 19 | Malt Whisky : There are 27 distilleries producing almost a third of the total industry capacity . |
| 20 | Fernhart estimates it will shift around 48 TSMDesk units over the next year , generating around a third of its total income and hopefully boosting its turnover from last year 's £2.6m to over £3m in , 1992–3 . |
| 21 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 22 | Thirty six so that was one way of working out a tenth of it but we want a fifth . |
| 23 | The result was Lake Nasser , 250 miles long , covering almost a fifth of the Egyptian Nile , and stretching some 70 miles into Sudan . |
| 24 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |