Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor sucks in a Hooverful of cigar smoke , then strains it out through tight lips . |
| 2 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 3 | Perhaps as a consequence of this , few seemed to find having to submit a report a threatening prospect , only a fifth of teachers believing that their school had felt threatened in any way . |
| 4 | And , it says , ‘ only a fifth of companies provide orientation advice on the localities , schooling , commuting and general amenities ’ . |
| 5 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
| 6 | An estimate for 1802 suggests that only a twelfth of relief recipients were inmates . |
| 7 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 8 | German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside . |
| 9 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 10 | Environmental regulation has focused on other forms of pollution ; only a third of air pollution expenditure goes on removing particles and most of this is spent on catching larger particles , those that are more than 10 microns in diameter . |
| 11 | With only a third of Britain 's 10,000 practices so far computerised , and practice systems costing on average well over £20,000 , 1990 will be a bonanza year for the computer industry . |
| 12 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 13 | Over the weekend only a third of ambulance crews were working in London , where the dispute is taking the biggest toll because of staff shortages . |
| 14 | Only a third of collieries had pithead baths before nationalisation . |
| 15 | In the late 1980s , only a third of households contained children ( OPCS , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | In South East Asia , for example , still only a third of children are immunised against diphtheria , whooping cough and tetanus in the vital first year of life . |
| 17 | Already , the official ration provides only a third of people 's needs . |
| 18 | At the other end of the site , as the State Paper Office and its neighbouring houses in Duke Street would remain , only a third of Scott 's west elevation of the Foreign Office would be seen from the park . |
| 19 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 20 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 21 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 22 | Nevertheless a fair of sorts had taken place . |
| 23 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 24 | Exactly a third of referrals were made by GPs . |
| 25 | It was an opinion that not a few of Gould 's associates would have shared . |
| 26 | It 's not a third of metre , a third of a millimetre or a third of a kilometre , it 's just a third , the ratio of that length to that one . |
| 27 | Just under a thousand of vines — but it 's some of the best land there is . |
| 28 | What had occurred was an unprecedented box-office slump in which eventually a third of America 's movie-houses were to close and giant film corporations were to plunge into debt . |
| 29 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 30 | Part of the principle of equal treatment is that a compulsory bid must be made when a certain level of shareholdings is actually exceeded , namely a third of voting stock . |