Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research shows that an average of 15,000 square kilometres of trees was cleared annually from 1978-88 , half to a third of other estimates . |
| 2 | Nor should anything especially sinister be read into reports that the money to pay for little Sachin has been provided by commercial concerns not averse to a little of the old quid pro quo . |
| 3 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
| 4 | I 'll go armed with a few of my best designs , just in case my big break awaits me ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 6 | Diesel engines are the main source of smoke in cities and are responsible for a fifth of all emissions of nitrogen oxides . |
| 7 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 8 | Unsuitable for those with a personal of family history of strokes , heart attacks or raised blood pressure , and some diabetics . |
| 9 | The appointment of a practice manager was regarded as important by a third of firms with over fifty staff and the findings show that management systems tend to be much better developed in firms where decision making is in the hands of a single practice manager rather than , for example , in committee meetings of the whole partnership . |
| 10 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 11 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 12 | He 'd shot hand-held at a fifteenth of a second at f4.5 . " |
| 13 | This this expression here V nine thousand five hundred minus a tenth of N that always tells us what V is worth , anywhere along here it 'll give us the value of the car . |
| 14 | Such measures would need very high rates of carbon tax , raising revenues that would be roughly equivalent to a tenth of world product . |
| 15 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 16 | Physically the Intel 8080 is a package approximately two inches long by half an inch wide by a fifth of an inch deep . |