Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fine Italianate palazzo was built in Edwardian times , and by then , as in so many other places , it was in fact two stations that were required , one suburban and one for the main line . |
| 2 | I mean losing two , our last one a mo a month old and one at er two month old . |
| 3 | The match kicked off with a parade of golfers , a display from the Red Arrows in the air and the playing of national anthems that included the German , Spanish , British and one for Uncle Sam . |
| 4 | In time of war the proportion was probably as high as one in eight . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 6 | Although in some hospitals it 's as high as one in five . |
| 7 | The result of an unequal balance of power is where I went back to , is the precipitating factor in marital violence which is , you know , some surveys put as high as one in four families , is in fact when the woman becomes uppity . |
| 8 | As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background . |
| 9 | Carried out nationally , this showed that almost ten per cent of urban African households now possessed radio sets ; in the rural areas , the audience was far more scattered and the figure lower than one in fifty . |
| 10 | They were simple creatures , made of two layers of cells , one on the outside and one on the inside , with every part of the body within reach of the outside for the efficient transport of nutrients and wastes . |
| 11 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 12 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 13 | Multiple-step paraffin sections ( 4–5 m ) were immunostained with two ET-1 antisera — one for the c-terminal pepetide of ET-1 and one for the c-terminal peptide of big ET-1 ( big ET-122–38 ) — µby the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method . |
| 14 | Obviously a point with a higher weight is brighter than one with a lower weight . |
| 15 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |
| 23 | Fewer than one in twenty of sexual assault cases in the survey are covered by more than four newspapers . |
| 24 | Fewer than one in five hundred decisions are appealed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |