Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keyboard studies remain paramount for about a third of music college undergraduates although opportunities are provided for the learning of a second instrument or singing . |
| 2 | Officially responsible for nearly a third of the 150,000 divorces granted annually . |
| 3 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 4 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
| 5 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 6 | Chief Superintendent Meadows added : ’ Excessive speed is responsible for around a third of all vehicle occupancy deaths . |