Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 2 | Files from Warrington , for example , were sent to Glasgow for only a sixth of the cost by road . |
| 3 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 4 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 5 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 6 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 7 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 8 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 9 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 10 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 11 | Examination of just a few of these underlines the channelling and legitimating role which law plays in particular types of commercial activity . |
| 12 | This document provides a brief account of just a few of the important discoveries and medical advances which have been achieved as a result of such work , discoveries and advances which have benefited animals as well as people . |
| 13 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 14 | The locals are thinly spread but Pembrokeshire Sea Canoeists , a group of about a dozen of around his own age of 31 , meet up for paddles and he is a member of the board lifesaving club at Whitesands . |
| 15 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 16 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 17 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether he 's read the County Farms Estate report , but it was actually option two , was one of the proposals we had to consider , which was to was to dispose of about a third of the estate , reduce it from twelve thousand acres to nine thousand acres , which was actually rejected at erm , the property sub-committee by all parties , including Labour . |
| 19 | Technical developments in both polyethylene film and paper production have led to material savings of about a third for the same performance , good news environmentally and commercially . |
| 20 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 21 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 22 | After a violent struggle this grew to a membership of around a hundred within three years . |
| 23 | The jobs of around a tenth of Barnsley 's 7,000 borrowers are under threat . |
| 24 | For example , in October 1974 the Labour Government secured the support of 39.2 per cent of those who voted and just over a quarter of the electorate ; in 1979 the Conservatives gained 43.9 per cent of the vote and the support of around a third of the electorate ; and in 1983 , the Conservative landslide of seats ( their parliamentary majority trebled ) was based on just 42.4 per cent of the vote — less than they got when they lost in 1964 , less than they got in 1979 , the fifth-lowest Conservative vote since the war , and the lowest vote-count by a government with a secure majority since 1922 . |
| 25 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has published a document setting out ways of protecting groundwater , the source of around a third of Britain 's drinking water . |
| 26 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 27 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 28 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 29 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 30 | By 1932 , when Hitler was running for Reich President and the Nazi Movement was gaining the support of over a third of the population , the ‘ Jewish Question , scarcely featured in Hitler 's public addresses . |