Example sentences of "a [num ord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sixth how many twelfths would we need top make a sixth ? |
| 2 | The housekeeper 's request answered Belinda 's doubt that brother and sister might not yet be ready for an intrusion , and after adding a fourth almost transparent bone-china coffee-cup and saucer to the engraved silver tray , she carried it carefully through the series of open , interconnected rooms until she reached the veranda . |
| 3 | He then hit Snell for a fifth straight six and a 12th four before being deceived by Kuiper 's slower ball , which he skied to extra . |
| 4 | Nearly half were single people , of whom more than half were aged under 25 and a fifth under 18 . |
| 5 | As a fifth more radical possibility , might consumers be empowered by the professional care givers of an athenian local state and seek to opt out of the traditional services — persuading providers or purchasers to contract for alternatives ? |
| 6 | In this country RMC poured a fifth less ready-mix , an extremely steep decline . |
| 7 | ( Even so , it was still carrying out less than a fifth as many maintenance dredging programmes as the North-West and Thames Water Authorities . ) |
| 8 | The average shrinkage level for 1991 is 24 p.c. of net profit , up a third over two years , and retailers expect it to grow in line with inflation . |
| 9 | Those with a sweet tooth will love Delight Vanilla & Strawberry and Vanilla & Chocolate ice cream , with a third less fat than normal ice cream . |
| 10 | Estonia , again , published more than a third as many again books as the USSR average in the late 1980s , and museum and theatre visits were between two and three times the national average . |
| 11 | At the other extreme , special educational needs — with only a third as many courses as social issues — accounted for slightly more teacher-days , although still only 11 per cent of the total time . |
| 12 | and say this group of four here , erm , will get this much shared out between us , so if there were a third as many people , if there was only one person we would n't need so many erm , if there was only one pizza , right , |
| 13 | Largely because of the ‘ development focus ’ , the plan would cost a third as much as the LRPPP . |
| 14 | Low fat sausages for example contain only a third as much fat as ordinary sausages . |
| 15 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 16 | Norway , excluding Svalbard , is a third as big again as the UK with a population of only four million , most of whom live in Oslo , a fine city with one of the best museum complexes in Europe . |
| 17 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 18 | There were books scattered all about their cottage , but not a tenth as many as were here . |
| 19 | Ministers also agreed on the creation of an eighth exclusively German corps based in eastern Germany until the withdrawal of all Soviet forces in 1994 . |