Example sentences of "nine times out of ten [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 2 | But he knew it was a routine , automatic business , none the less essential for all that , and nine times out of ten effective . |
| 3 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 4 | nine times out of ten these |
| 5 | Now we find all that was to no avail , since nine times out of ten local authorities have pushed all thought aside of giving the relief . ’ |