Example sentences of "four [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 | A recent survey conducted by the accountancy firm Arthur Anderson showed that four out of 10 companies in the Community were unprepared for the new VAT regime . |
| 3 | Our survey found that four out of 10 boys agree it 's difficult not to have sex if all your friends are doing it . |
| 4 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 5 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 6 | According to the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) four out of 10 graduates entering the chemical industry in 1990 were women . |
| 7 | Monty , 29 , birdied four out of six holes from the 10th to reach 16 under before it became too dark to carry on . |
| 8 | At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) . |
| 9 | Finally , after 90 minutes tumbling with the large clasts , the postcrania fragmented still further : four out of five femora remained as chipped proximal ends ( Fig. 1.9d-f,1.10C ) ; one proximal end and two shafts of tibiae ( Fig. 1.9j-1 ) ; four out of five humeri remained as two distal ends ( Fig. 1.10H ) , one proximal and one shaft ( Fig. 1.9 r , s ) ; and all four ulnae remained , one still intact and the others represented by a proximal end and two shafts ( Fig. 1.9 v , w ) . |
| 10 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |
| 11 | In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank . |
| 12 | Four out of five customers now stay in the black . |
| 13 | An investor in a Broadway production knows full well that four out of five investments will certainly be lost . |
| 14 | In one particular primary school four out of five non-respondents refused . |
| 15 | Most education officers seem to think about four out of five claims are false . |
| 16 | Waringstown are disappointed at being back on the road in the Schweppes , having played four out of five matches away when winning the trophy last summer . |
| 17 | — SHILDON got four out of five boys through to the quarter finals of the national schools championships at Knottingley on Saturday . |
| 18 | A new study of bank takeovers in America in the 1980s * indicates that four out of five acquisitions are flops . |
| 19 | Our work in Ladywood in Birmingham has shown that in the acute care of severely mentally ill people through home treatment , hospital admission can be avoided in four out of five cases . |
| 20 | The results were not at all encouraging : four out of five hams on sale in delicatessens , a third in supermarkets and almost half of those in butcher shops were contaminated . |
| 21 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |
| 22 | MORE than four out of five Britons feel they are financially worse off than they were a year ago . |
| 23 | Four out of five applicants then leave their families for the supposedly better world , hoping that they will return remittances and that their kin may perhaps be able to join them later . |
| 24 | In his will , Barnes gave Lincoln , a small black institution in rural Pennsylvania , the power to name four out of five trustees to the foundation board . |
| 25 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 26 | Taken literally , the idea that four out of five cars would be unable to run is rubbish . |
| 27 | He says that ‘ four out of five cars would be unable to run if the lead were removed . ’ |
| 28 | Well intentioned as the EEC goal is , it is worth remembering that four out of five cars would be unable to run if the lead were removed . |
| 29 | She defended it , saying four out of five prescriptions were free . |
| 30 | Patients pay £4.25 per item but four out of five prescriptions are dispensed free to people who are exempt . |