Example sentences of "one in [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " 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 | At the 1931 election the Labour Party retained only one in six of the seats they had won in 1929 . |
| 3 | Although only one in five of the mothers in this book had positively wanted to have a baby , and a few did n't mind , the rest had no particular wish to get pregnant and were rather shocked to discover that they were . |
| 4 | However , only one in five of the women who experienced a severe life event or major difficulty subsequently developed depression . |
| 5 | A living medicine chest One in four of the medicines we use , owe their origin to plants and animals in tropical forests . |
| 6 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Under our policies more than one in three of the jobs created in the European Community for women were created during the past eight years in Britain . |
| 8 | Thomas Cartwright , the Elizabethan Presbyterian , declared on one occasion that ‘ heaps ’ of his contemporaries had cast aside the old religion without discovering the new , and the minister Josias Nichols complained in 1602 that only one in ten of the inhabitants of a Kentish parish with 400 communicants knew the basics of Protestant doctrine . |
| 9 | No more than one in ten of the items we submit are printed and even the report of Peter 's adoption did not appear until a week later and only then after complaints to the Editor . |