Example sentences of "in five [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption made was that perhaps as many as one child in five might need special educational help at some stage in their school career . |
| 2 | Only this week a survey by Gallup showed one in five would like to go under the knife , despite the attendant risks of internal bleeding and excessive scar tissue from poorly performed operations . |
| 3 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 4 | For example the numbers needing opiates to control pain are rising and up to one in five will need special battery-operated syringe pumps to deliver medication in the home . |
| 5 | While the north of Cameroun has been badly affected , its key productive areas lie in the high rainfall zones of the western highlands ; in Kenya the old colonial rule-of-thumb that one year in five will be a year of drought has been sustained , and lean years have been followed by bumper crops . |
| 6 | It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted . |
| 7 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 8 | One in five will die from a hip fracture . |