Example sentences of "[det] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background . |
| 2 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |
| 11 | Fewer than one in twenty of sexual assault cases in the survey are covered by more than four newspapers . |
| 12 | Fewer than one in five hundred decisions are appealed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Opinion polls showed that fewer than one in six Bulgarians supported restoration of the monarchy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Well if you get one of each for us all and one for Ray of that page . |
| 25 | Rainfall is uncertain and varied — drought years may be as many as one in five ; many soils are eroded and soil quality may vary within as little space as a hectare ; even small-scale irrigation may be ineffective as high levels of ‘ run-off ’ prevent the efficient use of water . |
| 26 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 27 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 28 | As many as one in 12 Britons dislike our cross-Channel neighbours with the Welsh topping the league . |
| 29 | As many as one in five motherless children in the NCDS sample of lone-parent families had brothers or sisters living away from home ( Ferri , 1976 ) . |
| 30 | As many as one in three of those who supported the Conservatives last year refused to do so last week . |