Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel . |
| 2 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 3 | Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65 . |
| 4 | The latest unemployment figures show that one in ten people are now without a job . |
| 5 | Well , if you consider that one in a hundred people in Britain means over half a million people , you are talking of a large group of people , who must have something in common to make them buy your product . |
| 6 | Statistics ( Table I ) indicate that one in ten of the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland works in agriculture , although in practice the presence of small scale and often part-time farming means that probably one in five receive part of their income from agricultural activities . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher . |
| 8 | Become as one with the dove … you are the dove . |
| 9 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |