Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A verb form , especially a finite of to be , that connects a subject and the complement or the nominal part of the predicate : His brother was a sailor . |
| 2 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 3 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 4 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 5 | The great ecclesiastical towns lived on the churches and monasteries — perhaps a twentieth of the population of Valladolid depended on the Church — while soup and bread doles from the episcopal palaces and monasteries were an important element in the budget of the urban poor . |
| 6 | could use the same report cover by printing a s perhaps a thousand of those . |
| 7 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 8 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 9 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 10 | The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home . |
| 11 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 12 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 13 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 14 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 15 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 16 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 17 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 18 | A fine copy of Pride and Prejudice in original boards , uncut , and with paper labels , can take the buyer into four figures ; a beautiful set in calf or morocco costing perhaps a tenth of that , and one in cloth considerably less still . |
| 19 | Four times ninety , so a fourth of the way round , a quarter the way round must be ? |
| 20 | So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see . |
| 21 | So a tenth of three sixty must be ? |
| 22 | Victor sucks in a Hooverful of cigar smoke , then strains it out through tight lips . |
| 23 | A kilo of in Brazil now brings in a fifth of what it did in eighty , nineteen eighty three . |
| 24 | He still brings in a few of the old fans . |
| 25 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 26 | The IGCC plant achieved an energy efficiency of 45-50 per cent , compared to 37 per cent for a conventional coal-fired station with flue-gas desulphurization equipment ; and it produced 10 per cent less carbon dioxide , only a seventh of the sulphur dioxide , a third of the nitrogen oxides , and no methane . |
| 27 | But there are only a hundred of them , poorly armed , standing against any army of 42,000 troops . |
| 28 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 29 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 30 | It supplied only a fifth of the nation 's energy supplies , far behind oil , and was now challenged by nuclear power . |