Example sentences of "in five [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I was sure I was just one of the one in five whose first pregnancy ends in miscarriage . ’ |
| 2 | The one before this one , co-incidentally , was a very broad one , which was an attempt at assessing the results of Five , which of course took place in Manila in May/June , and right after that , with the participation of some of the people who had been , in Five we tried to assess what impact , if any , their conference is going to make for the future of the world economic system . |
| 3 | Twenty percent of our population one in five what a disgrace . |
| 4 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 5 | The survey results tabulated in section 9 of Appendix 1 suggest that even the minority who do try and balance the figures in this way ( that is , the one in five who are at least theoretical ‘ rational choosers ’ ) may sometimes be swayed by an entirely random factor — the order in which they become aware of the various different sets of cost figures . |
| 6 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Only one organist in five there is under the age of forty , and of all those serving , 40% are more than sixty years of age . |