Example sentences of "[adv] a fifth [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kilo of in Brazil now brings in a fifth of what it did in eighty , nineteen eighty three . |
| 2 | It supplied only a fifth of the nation 's energy supplies , far behind oil , and was now challenged by nuclear power . |
| 3 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 4 | That is only a fifth of what ITV companies charge each other for less popular , but , less economical , ‘ quality ’ drama . |
| 5 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 6 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 7 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 8 | And , it says , ‘ only a fifth of companies provide orientation advice on the localities , schooling , commuting and general amenities ’ . |
| 9 | There are few diamonds to be found , nor is there much cocoa ; and considering the amount of space the Pacific commands it might seem a little odd ( unless one remembers the geology ) that only a fifth of the world 's proven oil reserves are there . |
| 10 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 12 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 13 | Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system . |
| 14 | Perhaps as a consequence of this , few seemed to find having to submit a report a threatening prospect , only a fifth of teachers believing that their school had felt threatened in any way . |
| 15 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
| 16 | There was a tremendous finish in the boys 1500 metres , with Matthew Knowles , of Sunderland Harriers , beating Houghton Harrier Chris Old almost on the line , the winning margin being only a fifth of a second . |
| 17 | In all the highly exposed individuals examined 96 per cent had a level in the blood less than one tenth of the toxic threshold — with the highest still only a fifth of this . |
| 18 | Racehorse owners recoup just a fifth of their costs , on average . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the single person 's pension has remained at around just a fifth of average gross earnings over the whole of the post-war period . |
| 20 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
| 21 | I therefore worked on the premise that if , if a fifth of our work comes from then it must be right to have approximately a fifth of our staff based in |
| 22 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 23 | ‘ Something under a fifth of a teaspoonful — say four or five drops — added to which it is highly soluble . ’ |
| 24 | The idea is to drop the notion that the handicapped and the non-handicapped are separate groups , whilst still acknowledging that certain children , possibly a fifth of all children educated , may require some form of special education . |
| 25 | Fittingly it was full-back Denis Irwin , always an eager ally in attack , who thumped home a fifth with a blistering first-time drive from 15 yards . |
| 26 | West Germany said yesterday it had agreed to cut its armed forces by nearly a fifth to 400,000 by the mid 1990s if US and Soviet negotiators agreed on cutting conventional arms . |
| 27 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 28 | Nearly a fifth of those who listened to the announcement , however , still believed the Martians had landed . |
| 29 | Greater awareness and/or knowledge of users or communities was mentioned by nearly a fifth of all authorities , in various ways , e.g. : |
| 30 | There were few electricity disconnections , not surprising since heat and hot water were provided by gas , but nearly a fifth of the households surveyed had had their gas cut off . |