Example sentences of "[adv] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This order is basically a First In First Out method with a simple modification . |
| 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 | Despite profits which were down a third on last year , Stoddard Sekers International outperformed the bulk of the beleaguered textile section . |
| 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 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 9 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the first half of the eighteenth century the London trading turnover of the Company ran between £1m. and £2m. a year , of which about half went on bullion and other items to export , perhaps a sixth on transport costs , and a third for English customs duties . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 17 | Four times ninety , so a fourth of the way round , a quarter the way round must be ? |
| 18 | So a sixth plus one twelfth is |
| 19 | So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see . |
| 20 | So a tenth of three sixty must be ? |
| 21 | A kilo of in Brazil now brings in a fifth of what it did in eighty , nineteen eighty three . |
| 22 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It supplied only a fifth of the nation 's energy supplies , far behind oil , and was now challenged by nuclear power . |
| 27 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 28 | That is only a fifth of what ITV companies charge each other for less popular , but , less economical , ‘ quality ’ drama . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |