Example sentences of "one in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 2 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 3 | Around one in five of the nurses and 38% of the doctors felt that female patients discriminated against nurses who were male . |
| 4 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 5 | Staff estimated that this very stiff target was attained relatively rarely , so that , at most , one in five of the prisoners actually received pay on any one day . |
| 6 | However , for one in five of the people in residential homes for a year or more , our respondents said that there were relatives who they felt might have visited more often . |
| 7 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 8 | It was fine when one in five of the population was involved in farming but today we need a ‘ new spirit ’ . |
| 9 | One in five of the SERC funded students had studied on a specialist course : four-fifths were conversion students . |
| 10 | One in nine of the women surveyed reckoned that male drivers ‘ think they own the road ’ and nearly three-quarters of them said men were too impatient . |
| 11 | One in nine of the operations carried out in the region now are done privately , and that 's actually one in three in some parts of . |
| 12 | Two-fifths of the ex-care sample had a rating of poor parenting , compared to one in nine of the comparison group . |
| 13 | Very much a rubber stamp exercise in those days and as a result of that only one in four of the businesses that were supported was actually surviving at the end of the first twelve months . |
| 14 | That 's one in four of the UK 's households — twice as many as 30 years ago . |
| 15 | In some parts of the Highlands , the industry employs one in four of the workforce . |
| 16 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 17 | Finding himself in a minority of one in 1965 over the Commission 's package of proposals , De Gaulle either had to cede the day to the Community and hence accept the principle of majority voting , or block the effective working of the Community . |
| 18 | **The number of parliamentary seats was increased by one in 1992 with the division of the Milton Keynes constituency into two . |
| 19 | In south-west Hertfordshire one in seven of the working-class boys secured entry to a grammar school , compared with one in two of the sons of clerks ; the corresponding proportions in Middlesborough were one in eight and one in three . |
| 20 | If the success of the election hinged on any one province , it was Kompong Cham — the home of Hun Sen , the prime minister of the Phnom Penh government and the area from which one in six of the members of Cambodia 's constituent assembly will be returned . |
| 21 | One in six of the total 8,371 complaints — up 3.9 per cent on last year — concerned late trains . |
| 22 | As we noted earlier , perhaps as many as one in six of the adult population of England had lived in London for part of their lives . |
| 23 | I understand , however , that in 1982 , in the Lothian and Borders region , there was an entry on the computer for one in six of the population suggesting some kind of suspicion . |
| 24 | About one in 500 of the population seems to have an inherited fault ( ie , it runs in the family ) in this control mechanism . |
| 25 | B : The one in 1983 with a picture of Yazoo in a science factory |
| 26 | Revealingly , its opening section was devoted to foreign affairs ; in all three Thatcher manifestos , including the one in 1983 following the Falklands war , they were relegated to the back , and domestic policy took pride of place . |
| 27 | The age of the victim was not always clear , but about one in eight of the cases involved children under the age of 10 . |
| 28 | One in eight of the population over 65 is severely disabled , and twice that number moderately disabled ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 6 ) . |
| 29 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 30 | Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ? |