Example sentences of "fewer [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 2 | Fewer than one in one hundred families with dependent children with a mother in employment have weekly incomes under £100 , compared to one in ten families with dependent children where the mother was not in employment . |
| 3 | Turnouts of over 50% in individual wards were almost commonplace , and in only one ward throughout the metropolitan areas ( Elswick , Newcastle upon Tyne ) did fewer than one in three of the electorate go to the polls . |
| 4 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 5 | Whereas two out of three people aged between 18 and 34 are paying off some current credit commitment , fewer than one in five pensioners are . |
| 6 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 7 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |
| 8 | Fewer than one in twenty of sexual assault cases in the survey are covered by more than four newspapers . |
| 9 | Fewer than one in five hundred decisions are appealed . |
| 10 | Although fewer than one in 10 identified another family member as unable to work due to their cystic fibrosis , the employment rate among mothers of adults with cystic fibrosis is less than that expected in women aged 45–60 . |
| 11 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 12 | The institutions we have just considered represent , however , fewer than one in four of the further education establishments in the Principality ; indeed , more typical are the remaining 35 colleges which are concerned almost exclusively with non-advanced work . |
| 13 | No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear . |
| 14 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 15 | Bush declined to sign legislation put before him on Nov. 9 amending the 1983 " Orphan Drug Act " , a controversial law which granted market monopolies to companies producing drugs to treat rare diseases — defined as diseases which afflicted fewer than one in 200,000 of the population . |
| 16 | Opinion polls showed that fewer than one in six Bulgarians supported restoration of the monarchy . |
| 17 | In the great Victorian cities of Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Sheffield fewer than one in ten of the population went to church or chapel ; the industrial working classes mostly stayed at home . |
| 18 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 19 | Elliffe said fewer than one in three of the placements were disrupted which is better than the national average , and the project is placing children local authorities can not place . |
| 20 | ‘ With the number of firms working to full capacity still fewer than one in five it is difficult to be optimistic about any improvements in the short term , ’ he added . |