Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] a " in BNC.

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1	Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer .
2	There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London .
3	She had made her point — that Suzi was one on a long , long list , and that Gesner was her parents ' generation .
4	Always I had found magic in small islands , and here was one with a full-rigged galleon of a cathedral as if moored alongside .
5	There was one with a stretcher and Red Cross nurses were represented .
6	There was one with a monkey in too , crammed in this little shell with the side cut away so you could see in .
7	‘ Can you describe any of them ? ’ 'There was one with a beard …
8	He is classified as having a patron/client because of the observed relationship with a large organisation which was one among a number of significant clients .
9	Among its most notorious performances was one by a Brazilian troupe whose members bit the heads off live chickens in the course of the action .
10	Referring to a case where grammar school children got drunk one night and began damaging cars and property , one of the juvenile liaison police said , ‘ It was the old drink , like , that did it , but there was one from a local children 's home .
11	‘ He was one in a million was Charlie .
12	He was one in a million ! ’
13	Alain-Fournier 's The Wanderer ( translated by Françoise Delisle ) was one in a series of illustrated classics published by Paul Elek .
14	There was one in a loden green suit with a felt hat — in May ! — and terrible legs .
15	Twenty-four-year-old Wilkinson said : ‘ Brian Clough was one in a million at Nottingham Forest .
16	Mr Gibson said that procedures were being examined to prevent a recurrence and the incident was one in a million .

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