Example sentences of "find that [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 2 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 4 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 5 | In one small group Mrs M finds that alcohol helps her forget the noises and is in real danger of ‘ taking to the bottle ’ , whereas Mrs N finds that even a thimbleful of alcohol increases the head noises dramatically . |
| 6 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 7 | you 'll find that quite a lot of what you 're saying is then seen |