Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 2 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 3 | A follow-up meeting between the movement and the king never materialised , and after the two clashes on the border King Hassan has called off a second meeting . |
| 4 | Article 36 bis spelled out that the basis for a member State of an organisation becoming bound to a third party with respect to a treaty concluded by the organisation was its express agreement . |
| 5 | The second wave of Trusts has become like a second hand car sale . |
| 6 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 7 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 8 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 9 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 10 | Tests of the head do not definitely identify its age and Oxford has asked for a second sample . |
| 11 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 12 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) Where any property transferred under an agreement to which this section applies has passed to a third party the references to that property in subsections ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above shall be construed as references to its value at the time of its transfer under the agreement . |
| 14 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 15 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 16 | ‘ This current system , ’ added Mrs. Buttigieg , ‘ would appear to work on a first come first served basis , regardless of whether or not one is a regular customer ’ . |
| 17 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 18 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 19 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 20 | After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 . |
| 21 | As we saw in chapter 12 , there is another quite different intellectual reason for wanting to control for a third factor when assessing the relationship between two variables . |
| 22 | Radio cassettes worth £325 and £80 were taken from two cars in Benton Close , and an attempt was made to get into a third car in the street . |
| 23 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 24 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 25 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 26 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 27 | Right it 's got to look like a third . |
| 28 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 29 | As you gain experience and begin to think about a first cross-country , local soaring provides a golden opportunity to check the compass for large errors and to get some practice at turning on to definite headings . |
| 30 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |