Example sentences of "three [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least four out of 10 women got five or more words right , compared to three out of 10 men . |
| 2 | Coach Rich Kotite has chosen McMahon 's winning knack over Cunningham 's unpredictability to get the Eagles flying against the Los Angeles Raiders after losing three out of four games . |
| 3 | Nearly three out of four adults own a video recorder but only one third of women use them without any problems , compared with two thirds of men and half of children . |
| 4 | Three out of four directors say social workers lack the necessary powers to act when they suspect old people are being abused by carers , relatives or neighbours . |
| 5 | So if we did get Three out of four chances we get a blue . |
| 6 | Abolish three out of four committees today . |
| 7 | A combination of the use of total DNA restriction digest patterns ( Fig 1 ) and ribopatterns ( Fig 2 ) showed that the same strain of H pylori or subtype of the same strain was present in more than one member of three out of four families tested . |
| 8 | THREE out of four nurses suffer sexual harassment at work from patients and colleagues , a new report reveals . |
| 9 | The report describes how three out of four birds die of disease , crushing , overcrowding and starvation in transit . |
| 10 | In Derbyshire three out of four fathers anticipated that their sons would take over . |
| 11 | Human CFTR expression was seen in the airways of three out of four animals transfected with pREP8-CFTR and , in at least one transfected animal , human CFTR sequences were detected in all five lobes of the lung . |
| 12 | It was interesting that all three patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty had negative provocation tests and only short periods in which DGR fluid contained high concentrations of sodium ( Table I ) compared with three out of four patients after Billroth 1 gastrectomy who had positive provocation tests and high sodium concentrations . |
| 13 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 14 | Three out of four employees said they understood the company 's drive for higher standards and accepted the need for change . |
| 15 | Statistics show that three out of four carers are women — and most of the remaining twenty-five per cent who are men are caring for a wife rather than a parent . |
| 16 | Three out of four strikes are unofficial . |
| 17 | In Dwing , a village in the high Garhwal Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh , women walk at least 10 kilometres three out of four days , for an average of seven hours per day , to bring back about 25 kg of wood with each headload . |
| 18 | The survey also found that three out of five companies use contract hire because of ease of administration , while , for outright purchase , three in 10 gave this reason . |
| 19 | The result is shown in Fig.2 ; in three out of five cases a high peak is present at over 95% confidence . |
| 20 | Three out of five firms had spent nothing on training associated with new technology in the past five years . |
| 21 | In many Third World countries as many as three out of five children die before the age of five . |
| 22 | CTL were detected to none of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , but three out of six individuals tested responded to the ls6 peptide from LSA-1 ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 23 | By 1307 the English baronage included three out of eleven earls who were of ‘ foreign ’ origin — Pembroke ( Aymer de Valence ) , Richmond ( Jean of Brittany ) and Cornwall ( Gaveston ) . |
| 24 | The neighbourhood culture workshops specially promoted by her predecessor apparently feel they have insufficient support from her , although in fact only three out of seventy workshops have been scrapped . |
| 25 | In the three-year period 1969 — 71 , then , three out of ten dailies and three out of seven Sundays changed ownership or status . |
| 26 | For example , in a study of the North American green frog , three out of 25 males mated between two and five times , and accounted for 47 per cent of all matings observed . |
| 27 | Three out of ten brunettes dyed their hair blonde to compete . |
| 28 | In the three-year period 1969 — 71 , then , three out of ten dailies and three out of seven Sundays changed ownership or status . |
| 29 | It 's estimated that 80% of burglaries are committed by casual opportunists , and in three out of ten thefts the burglar does n't have to use force to gain entry — open windows and unlocked doors make life very easy for him . |
| 30 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |