Example sentences of "one in [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 2 | Around one in five of the nurses and 38% of the doctors felt that female patients discriminated against nurses who were male . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The age of the victim was not always clear , but about one in eight of the cases involved children under the age of 10 . |
| 12 | Elliffe said fewer than one in three of the placements were disrupted which is better than the national average , and the project is placing children local authorities can not place . |
| 13 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 14 | A more healthy statistic is that British companies account for one in three of the firms selling programs for microcomputers in this country . |
| 15 | And one in three of the women said they did not get enough respect from male superiors . |
| 16 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 17 | As many as one in ten of the babies born on this beach will die here . |