Example sentences of "nine out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beth Wilson disagrees , ‘ I think women often have an ideal of the perfect man , and if he scores nine out of 10 , then it 's far too much a temptation not to want to try to change that last little bit . ’ |
| 2 | Nine out of 10 are routine calls , many of which could be carried out by mini cabs . |
| 3 | ALMOST nine out of ten British businesses believe Britain should become a full member of the European Monetary System , but they are deeply divided about the timing , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 4 | The Baptist Total Abstinence Association recorded a membership for England and Wales of 1,315 ministers and 205 ministerial students or nine out of every ten Baptist ministers and candidates . |
| 5 | The 10 Selection shares are all robust concerns , nine out of 10 ( the exception being Scottish Hydro-Electric ) deriving large chunks of their earnings abroad . |
| 6 | Nine out of every ten journeys , whether passenger or freight , are made by road . |
| 7 | Nine out of ten secondary school children are in comprehensive schools . |
| 8 | It 's time to get Britain working again explains how Labour will pay for its programme and cut taxes for nine out of ten families . |
| 9 | Nine out of ten lone parents are women |
| 10 | Nine out of ten lone parents are women |
| 11 | Of course no one pointed out then that in nine out of ten such cases the body would most likely be found on the beach sooner or later , maybe ten or twenty miles along the coast . |
| 12 | Before moving on to tackle the other types of gybe , you should aim to perfect the standard carve gybe with a success rate of nine out of ten . |
| 13 | Peter Millard won nine out of nine and Mike Gunton six . |
| 14 | Tracy Ashdown won nine out of nine and Brian Huntsman five . |
| 15 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 16 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 17 | ‘ Nine out of ten would have argued with me . ’ |
| 18 | As stated elsewhere in this book , a national opinion poll conducted by Southampton University and published on its ‘ Is Anyone There ? ’ programme on Halloween 1987 , showed that nine out of ten people in Britain believed in the reality of at least one psychic phenomenon . |
| 19 | It seems that Teller remained an inexhaustible source of ideas but , as with Winston Churchill , ‘ nine out of ten of them were useless and he needed men with more judgement , even if less gifted to select the tenth idea which was often a stroke of genius ’ . |
| 20 | He explained , ‘ As I watched , I thought , ‘ I hope he does n't blame the bunker ’ , because when the cameras are on them , nine out of ten pros will blame the bunker when they leave their ball in the sand . |
| 21 | A woman without children is considered abnormal , yet nine out of ten adult women also work or study full-time outside the home , and women constitute just over half the total Russian workforce . |
| 22 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |
| 23 | Nine out of ten chocoholics are women and four out of ten hide the habit because they believe it interferes with their lives , according to research based on a study of 50 self-confessed addicts . |
| 24 | Nine out of 10 British women buy their own tights and stockings so are loathe to see them wasted , according to a survey . |
| 25 | The tightest tight shoppers are in Wales , where nine out of 10 women would only spend £5 on a pair , even for a special event such as a wedding . |
| 26 | GrandMet — whose enquiry to UBS about the book 's contents sparked off the row uses nine out of 12 possible accounting devices . |
| 27 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 28 | Niki had nine pole positions in fourteen races , but nine out of eleven in the new car . |
| 29 | Nine out of ten of the 16,500 conscientious objectors , however , rejected this absolutist stand and accepted alternative service . |
| 30 | When the experiment was carried out using phone instructions however , only nine out of a group of 40 obeyed totally . |