Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarette smoking causes a third of all cancer deaths . |
| 2 | It contains a few of my pubic hairs . |
| 3 | China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip . |
| 4 | Firstly , the antecedent factor may be a direct cause of childhood psychiatric disturbance which has a continuous of intermittent course into adulthood . |
| 5 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 6 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 7 | Sue also has a few of her own knitting machines on the premises and makes garments to order as well as to sell to the tourists ! |
| 8 | From the outside , it has a few of the GTi dressings like upgraded wheel trims , spoilers at the front and rear and so on . |
| 9 | The Dutch government says a third of the country 's trees are dying because of drought and soil acidification . |
| 10 | The theory for an incompressible solid assumes a functional of the deformation gradients ( Where , compare Equation ( 2.14 ) and the right Cauchy-Green tensor , is given by and , because of incompressibility det ) . |
| 11 | This academic year the number of students per firm has increased to eight and we are collaborating with the department of oncology at the Whittington Hospital , which undertakes a fifth of the teaching . |
| 12 | The booklet describes a few of the routes suitable for walkers and cyclists . |
| 13 | Here it measures a third of a mile across . |
| 14 | But smoking kills a fifth of all smokers in middle age , 25 years before the end of their expected lifespan . |
| 15 | The cheapest American city in which to run a six-cylinder , four-door sedan is Sioux Falls , South Dakota , where insurance costs a fifth of what it does in LA . |
| 16 | Given that microcomputer power costs a tenth of the price of minicomputer power , while minicomputer power costs a tenth of the price of mainframe power , a small shift in this direction can make a dramatic difference to revenues . |
| 17 | Given that microcomputer power costs a tenth of the price of minicomputer power , while minicomputer power costs a tenth of the price of mainframe power , a small shift in this direction can make a dramatic difference to revenues . |
| 18 | This chapter introduces a few of Stamford 's more interesting people and includes murderers , political idealists , oddities of nature and romantic aristocrats . |
| 19 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 20 | And last night lawyer Peter Edwards , who represents a third of the inmates , said : ‘ What we have here is nurses who are no better than thugs . ’ |
| 21 | Computer firm sacks a fifth of the workforce . |
| 22 | His foster-child comes off best , but in addition each of two nurses receives a tenth of his estate . |
| 23 | The deal has already transformed its corporate profile ( Staley now contributes a third of group profits ) and made the group the largest sweetener manufacturer in the world , with a raw material base in corn as well as in cane and beet sugar . |
| 24 | A woman has the right to stop work until her child is three and gets a third of her salary for the first 18 months . |
| 25 | has never hidden the fact that he is a rich man — his collection of aircraft is of a calibre that requires a hanger-full of money as well as vision and skill . |
| 26 | She takes a skirt-full of windfall lemons . |
| 27 | It takes a hundredth of a second |
| 28 | Even though it hopes a third of this will be raised through sponsorship , the school is aware that some parents will still not be able to meet the cost . |
| 29 | The Chancellor insisted that Britain 's economic fortunes were inseparable from the world situation — ‘ as an open economy which exports a third of its output , developments abroad have a profound impact on Britain ’ . |
| 30 | Boeing sells a third of its aircraft overseas , making it the biggest exporter in the United States . |