Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 2 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 3 | He has got through a dozen of them over the years and generations of cricketers have passed by . |
| 4 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 5 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 6 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 7 | She 'd danced with a five of Palernians , all of them at once . |
| 8 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 9 | Penzias foresees that the number will have risen to a billion by the end of the century , with an untold gain in computing power . |
| 10 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 11 | Leopards might never be able to change their spots completely , but she was willing to try to get rid of a few of her more unattractive ones . |
| 12 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 13 | In fact Nathaniel had grown into a dissolute of considerable proportions by the time Dowd entered his employ , and could not have cared less what kind of creature Dowd was as long as he procured the right kind of company . |
| 14 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 15 | Jessica had dickered about wearing jeans — doing a Karen , she had mocked herself — but had settled for a button-through with a longish skirt to it . |
| 16 | In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants . |
| 17 | A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 . |
| 18 | They 've asked for a third of what |
| 19 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 20 | Spanish-speakers have grown from a third of Dade County 's people to just over a half . |
| 21 | I have listened to a few of her tracks since and I like them . |