Example sentences of "one in [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 2 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 3 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 4 | After gaining another Youth Cup winner 's medal in 1978 , Billy became a dominant central defender alongside Jim Cannon and was a key member of the side that took the Palace back into Division One in 1979 with the best defensive record in the club 's history ; Billy also gained the first of his eleven England Under 21 caps that season . |
| 5 | And while the teenage millions may be breathing a sigh of relief at Jason Donovan 's deliverance , the implications of the verdict were greeted with less satisfaction by the homosexual millions — variously estimated at anything from one in 100 to one in 10 of the male population of this country . |
| 6 | One in five young people receives higher education , compared with only one in eight under the last Labour Government . |
| 7 | More than one in five of the requested items which could not be supplied had been sent for binding . |
| 8 | MORE than one in five of the 2,329 young people seeking jobs and training in Hampshire have been out of work for more than six months . |
| 9 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 10 | When monkeys were offered hundreds of different kinds of insects , many brightly coloured and many others with dull patterns and colours , only one in five of the bright ones were eaten , while three out of four of the dull ones were eagerly gobbled up . |
| 11 | Although these proportions changed subsequently , particularly among the 55–59 age group , after three years only one in four of the whole group ( excluding those who had retired at the normal pension ages ) were in work . |
| 12 | A North American Division of BIE would require enough money to fund its operations , and if there were only 1,000 members ( one in 25 of the total number of embalmers ) this would provide an extra £69,000 of Institute income at the 1994 level . |
| 13 | The health service in Scotland employs 150,000 people — one in 15 of the Scottish workforce . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered . |
| 16 | The proportion without electricity was to be reduced to less than one in ten in the first decade of nationalisation . |