Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] fifth " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is remarkable given that the … scheme makes up only about a fifth of the total legal aid budget . ’ |
| 2 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 3 | So around a fifth had no policy about amniocentesis , although in all cases , tests were available on request . |
| 4 | It is only when the fifth bar is reached that problems arise . |
| 5 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 6 | As Table 14 shows , the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters ( 78% ) of all defective items issued were classified only as ‘ Poor ’ since they did not show major deterioration , while just under a fifth ( 18% ) were classified as ‘ Bad ’ . |
| 7 | The proportion of pupils with statements varies widely across the country , partly because of the LEAs ' differing policies on ‘ statementing ’ , but overall stands at some 1.7 per cent of the total population of statutory school age , with just over a fifth of these in ordinary rather than special schools . |
| 8 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 9 | Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers . |
| 10 | Family practitioner services take just over a fifth of total NHS spending . |
| 11 | Of the items which were not supplied , almost half ( 48% ) were already in use , just over a fifth ( 21% ) were being bound , one in ten ( 10% ) could not be located , and a further one in ten ( 10% ) did not in fact form part of the Library 's holdings . |
| 12 | In all the highly exposed individuals examined 96 per cent had a level in the blood less than one tenth of the toxic threshold — with the highest still only a fifth of this . |
| 13 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the single person 's pension has remained at around just a fifth of average gross earnings over the whole of the post-war period . |