Example sentences of "and a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 2 | He had four children with his first wife , Frances , and a fifth with his second wife , Barbara . |
| 3 | Now , nearly the whole output of houses is built under contract to local authorities and the remainder — between a tenth and a fifth of the whole — are built by licence to individual order . |
| 4 | As well as the extreme distress and loss of life this condition can cause , the hospital costs of dealing with the fractures are some £160 million a year , and a fifth of orthopaedic beds are occupied by such cases . |
| 5 | Bullets for those that could n't keep up and a fifth of a loaf a day for those that could . |
| 6 | The Civil Justice Review found that a third of banks and building societies , and a fifth of local authorities , did not enquire about the debtor 's circumstances before the hearing . |
| 7 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |
| 8 | Art came second , with more space devoted to it than either maths or language ; it accounted for just over a quarter of all curriculum-specific work areas for younger pupils , and a fifth of those for older pupils . |
| 9 | The three great grain stations were La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Plaine-Saint-Denis , and Saint Ouen-les-Docks , which between them received a quarter of all the grain and a fifth of all the flour brought into Paris by train . |
| 10 | For example , a third of the population of the London Borough of Brent has a head of household born in the New Commonwealth , as does a quarter of the London Borough of Ealing , and a fifth of Leicester and of Slough . |
| 11 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 12 | And a fifth of businesses with turnover of up to £1m said they had no firm of lawyers with whom they deal with on a regular basis at all . |
| 13 | According to a study sponsored by the Swiss government , two thirds of the country 's trees have more than 10 per cent damage to leaves and needles due to acid rain , and a fifth of the total are seriously ill . |
| 14 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 15 | By the morning of the 6th , when the thunderous German bombardment began to roll over the French positions , General de Bazelaire had four divisions up in the line on the Left Bank and a fifth in reserve . |
| 16 | The first print run of 6,000 sold out and a second of 4,000 is moving quickly . |
| 17 | A BamHI + PstI digest gave a single band of 4.8 kb with the ble specific probe , consistent with the restriction map of the construct ( Fig. 1B ) , and generated 2 novel tubulin specific bands ; the 4.8 kb band and a second of 5.6 kb , which represents the remaining integrated sequences . |
| 18 | This proved to be one of the major highlights of the event , and a first for the SVR . |
| 19 | The ‘ Santa Specials ’ are the first to be arranged for the British Rail main line in the area for quite some time , and a first for the North Warwickshire Line between Hall Green and the Shakespearean town of Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 20 | He obtained a second class in part i ( 1896 ) and a first in part ii ( 1898 ) of the natural sciences tripos . |
| 21 | This was the formative time of her life intellectually — she received a second class ( division I ) in part i of the economic tripos ( 1907 ) and a first in part ii ( 1908 ) — and emotionally , through enduring friendships formed . |
| 22 | He obtained a second class in literae humaniores and a first in mathematics in 1822 . |
| 23 | The sound support is excellent and a first in a Sierra adventure is the use of digitised speech in a two way conversation ( for those with appropriate hardware ) . |
| 24 | In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value . |
| 25 | Notice below ( Example 9 ) how Ponchielli begins with small leaps and then , as the melody reaches its climax , expands to leaps of a fifth , a sixth , and a seventh before the theme sinks again to less emotional expression : |
| 26 | ‘ Now , : he said , ‘ Half the elephants to the eldest son , so take nine ; a third to the middle son , so take six — and a ninth to the youngest , take two . |
| 27 | Frankfurt 's total capitalisation is only a third of the London stock exchange and a ninth of Wall Street , with many of the biggest German companies lacking even a listing . |
| 28 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 29 | My own first tenth and a tenth of T'zin 's . |
| 30 | Currencies had a quiet day , with sterling closing just under half a pfennig lower at Dm2.3835 and a tenth of a cent down at $1.4330 . |