Example sentences of "1 in 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | Most people , asked to stride a slope of 1 in 10 , will regard it as quite steep . |
| 3 | For the sake of argument , say 1 in 10 7 . |
| 4 | As many as 1 in 10 may live with their parents while most of those with their own accommodation will be renting from the local authority . |
| 5 | About 1 in 10 claim income support . |
| 6 | A 20mm ( ¼in ) overflow pipe from near the top of the tank should take water by gravity ( with a fall of 1 in 10 minimum ) to 150mm ( 6in ) or so beyond the outer walls of the house where its discharge will be safe and visible . |
| 7 | Take a trip down our Coalmine , 1 in 10 conscripts did ! |
| 8 | A small proportion of babies born with toxoplasmosis ( 1 in 10 ) will be severely affected with damage to the brain and eyes . |
| 9 | His biological tinctures and other soluble substances were diluted in a water/alcohol mixture , using two scales of dilution : the 1 in 10 known now as the D or X ( D = decimal , X = 10 ) range of potencies ; and the 1 in 100 , the C ( C = centesimal ) range . |
| 10 | Insoluble materials were triturated ( ground up ) with lactose ( sugar of milk ) in dilutions of 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 . |
| 11 | Hahnemann was the first to start modifying what he himself had enunciated and towards the end of his life he developed a further series of dilutions which he called the LM potencies , in which the material was diluted 1 in 50,000 at each step , rather than the more usual 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 dilution steps . |
| 12 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 13 | However , almost two-thirds have limited their sexual liaisons to single figures , with only 1 in 10 having had 20 or more sexual partners . |
| 14 | ( ii ) Wash embryos three times through warm M2 + BSA ( Table 5 ) then incubate them for 5–7 min in complement diluted between 1 in 5 and 1 in 10 in phosphate-buffered saline ( PBS ) . |
| 15 | For example , at any one time , 1 household in every 3 contains a dependent child , 1 in 5 consists of a person living alone , 1 in 4 is a childless married couple , 3 in 10 are married couples with dependent children , and 1 in 10 contains one or more people over retirement age . |
| 16 | The population of Greater London alone fell by almost three-quarters of a million between 1971 and 1981 , a drop of almost 1 in 10 ( OPCS , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | It will be appreciated that the signal to noise problems inherent in detecting and analysing 300 base pairs out of 3 billion ( 1 in 10 ) are very much alleviated after 30 cycles of polymerase chain reaction , when 10 copies of the 300 base pair fragment are present for every single copy of the total genomic DNA background . |
| 18 | About 1 in 10 has now followed this route over the country as a whole , and in the costly Southeast as many as 20 per cent may opt out of the NHS . |
| 19 | The probability of my being struck by lightning in any one minute of my life is perhaps 1 in 10 million as a conservative estimate . |
| 20 | The connections to the cistern are straightforward : the ballvalve is connected via a tap connector , which has a small fibre or rubber washer to make the seal ( a bent tap connector is often best for this job ) ; the cold feeds are connected to the tank connectors with compression joints and must fall gently away from the cistern to avoid airlocks ; the overflow pipe can be copper or plastic ( with a plastic tank connector ) and should be installed with a fall of at least 1 in 10 from the cistern . |
| 21 | About 800 of the city 's 15/16 year-olds and 800 17/18 year-olds ( a 1 in 10 sample ) will complete questionnaires in 1987 . |
| 22 | Solutions of 5ASA , N-acetyl-5ASA , and N-acetyl-4ASA were made by dissolving the drugs in 0.2 M NaOH , diluting 1 in 10 in L-15 , and then adjusting to pH 7.4 with 1 M HCl . |
| 23 | Houlston et al estimate the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer as 1 in 10 where the proband is aged under 45 at diagnosis , and 1 in 6 where two or more first degree relatives are affected . |
| 24 | Since there are 50 different V genes in humans , a superantigen reacts with more than 1 in 50 T cells whereas a conventional peptide antigen will react with 1 in 10 to 1 in 10 T cells ( see figure , bottom ) . |
| 25 | Since there are 50 different V genes in humans , a superantigen reacts with more than 1 in 50 T cells whereas a conventional peptide antigen will react with 1 in 10 to 1 in 10 T cells ( see figure , bottom ) . |
| 26 | About 1 in 10 young children suffer some form of head injury , with learning problems in later years . |
| 27 | Owing to faster population growth and an internal migration rate approaching 10% , an additional 1 in 10 sample was taken in 1966 and this would have been repeated in 1976 but for economic stringencies . |
| 28 | This is a 1 in 10 sample in England and Wales — a complete census in Scotland at discharge or death . |
| 29 | In the little-known country of Academia , it is a well established fact that 1 in 10 undergraduates leave university during or at the end of their first year . |
| 30 | But certainly it appears that around 1 in 10 of the seizures of cocaine in Britain now is in the form of crack . |