Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 2 | Meat consumption had increased by something like a third between 1870 and 1890 , and working-class people had begun to eat fruit , which had previously been a luxury . |
| 3 | But of course since that boom in the sixties we 've had the seventies ' economic depression , uncertainty about the future , the problem of the bomb , changed family attitudes , better contraception erm a great drop , and in fact a population a birth fall rather , of something like a third between nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty seven . |
| 4 | Something like a third of the increase has been taken up in higher prices , with the prices of some capital goods , such as houses , actually doubling . |
| 5 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 6 | But if we take a guess that there are thirty thousand , this means that in nineteen-ninety , three million people , or something like a tenth of the entire working population , will be engaged in writing materials for computers . |
| 7 | This is the reason for the invention of the electron microscope which uses electrons with a wave-length of something like a twenty-fifth of an Ångström instead of light with a wave-length of about four thousand Ångströms . |
| 8 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 9 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 11 | Chile has also signed mutual tariff-cutting agreements with Argentina and Bolivia , last year doubling its exports to one and increasing them by a third to the other . |