Example sentences of "[adv prt] of five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Novenco , made up of five subsidiaries making fans for the power , tunnelling and mining sectors , has an annual turnover of £45 million and lost £2.8 million before tax last year . |
| 2 | The Intercompany MBA Programme adopts a consortium approach made up of five organisations with five managers from each . |
| 3 | The Regiment was made up of five squadrons , each comprising 200 men , and they spent their time in tanks and armoured cars . |
| 4 | For firm B a going concern qualification would correctly predict failure only one time in five , while for firm C a going concern qualification would never be ‘ correct ’ in this sense , even though four times out of five investors in C would see a very substantial diminution in their wealth ( assuming an investment based on expected present values ) . |
| 5 | An investor in a Broadway production knows full well that four out of five investments will certainly be lost . |
| 6 | Three out of five firms had spent nothing on training associated with new technology in the past five years . |
| 7 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |
| 8 | In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank . |
| 9 | Four out of five customers now stay in the black . |
| 10 | Two out of five families are already full-time or part-time stepfamilies . |
| 11 | The results were not at all encouraging : four out of five hams on sale in delicatessens , a third in supermarkets and almost half of those in butcher shops were contaminated . |
| 12 | Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Most education officers seem to think about four out of five claims are false . |
| 14 | The survey also found that three out of five companies use contract hire because of ease of administration , while , for outright purchase , three in 10 gave this reason . |
| 15 | Waringstown are disappointed at being back on the road in the Schweppes , having played four out of five matches away when winning the trophy last summer . |
| 16 | In one particular primary school four out of five non-respondents refused . |
| 17 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees that that is a commendable advance by the RUC and the security forces , although it should not lead to complacency , because we shall not be satisfied until five out of five incidents are thwarted . |
| 18 | Finally , after 90 minutes tumbling with the large clasts , the postcrania fragmented still further : four out of five femora remained as chipped proximal ends ( Fig. 1.9d-f,1.10C ) ; one proximal end and two shafts of tibiae ( Fig. 1.9j-1 ) ; four out of five humeri remained as two distal ends ( Fig. 1.10H ) , one proximal and one shaft ( Fig. 1.9 r , s ) ; and all four ulnae remained , one still intact and the others represented by a proximal end and two shafts ( Fig. 1.9 v , w ) . |
| 19 | The result is shown in Fig.2 ; in three out of five cases a high peak is present at over 95% confidence . |
| 20 | Our work in Ladywood in Birmingham has shown that in the acute care of severely mentally ill people through home treatment , hospital admission can be avoided in four out of five cases . |
| 21 | Many of the campaigns were dominated by politicians from West Germany , including , in two out of five cases , the CDU and SPD candidates themselves . |
| 22 | A new study of bank takeovers in America in the 1980s * indicates that four out of five acquisitions are flops . |
| 23 | — SHILDON got four out of five boys through to the quarter finals of the national schools championships at Knottingley on Saturday . |
| 24 | At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) . |
| 25 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |
| 26 | MORE than four out of five Britons feel they are financially worse off than they were a year ago . |
| 27 | In his will , Barnes gave Lincoln , a small black institution in rural Pennsylvania , the power to name four out of five trustees to the foundation board . |
| 28 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 29 | In many Third World countries as many as three out of five children die before the age of five . |
| 30 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |