Example sentences of "[that] [pron] in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is anticipated that one in five Britons will be carers by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 3 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 4 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 5 | I WAS interested to read that one in five people does n't sleep well . |
| 6 | In Glasgow , for instance , it 's estimated that one in five men never eats vegetables of any kind and one third of the population never knowingly consumes fruit . |
| 7 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 8 | Thus it has been estimated that one in four women who lose their jobs do not appear in the monthly claimant count . |
| 9 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 10 | Since research tells us that one in four clients are dissatisfied enough to stop doing business with a professional firm , it would seem advisable for every practice to follow the Ernst & Young model and ask their clients how they feel , particularly as research also shows that an unhappy client will tell nine other people of his or her dissatisfaction . |
| 11 | The British Crime Survey suggests that one in four crimes are officially reported , although sociologists and criminologists suggest that between 10 and 15 per cent is a more probable figure . |
| 12 | The report says that one in 10 customers were charged incorrectly by their bank or building society , one in five had wrangles over standing orders and one in seven had money incorrectly removed from their accounts . |
| 13 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 14 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 15 | Our own work found that one in three managers appeared to go through a sense of crisis in their late thirties . |
| 16 | Recent research has shown that one in three managers and supervisors suffer from stress related symptoms and 75 per cent of loss working hours are due to illnesses resulting from stress . |
| 17 | When we launched our Health and Beauty Club last year , we discovered that one in three members has a hair problem — and many simply did n't know what to do about it . |
| 18 | This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel . |
| 19 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 20 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 21 | I learned that one in three marriages ends in divorce and that the rate is even higher among second marriages , but there was little comfort in being part of such a depressing statistic . |
| 22 | IT IS a fact of modern life that one in three marriages end in divorce . |
| 23 | It is estimated that one in three people will develop cancer at some stage in their lives . |
| 24 | The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware . |
| 25 | A further interesting finding was that one in three chairmen , one in nine employers ' representatives and one in seven employees ' representatives were also justices of the peace or held similar ‘ judicial or semi-judicial office ’ such as that of coroner . |
| 26 | Indeed , adjusting the figures to take account of those whose area of residence was not known , it can be calculated that one in ten youths on the most affected estate were known heroin users during 1984–5 . |
| 27 | The latest unemployment figures show that one in ten people are now without a job . |
| 28 | Sir Claus pointed out that one in seven children still left school without being able to read or write properly . |
| 29 | Well she told me that he in six months , yeah it was planned were n't it six months |