Example sentences of "a [num ord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1066 the number of English nuns was a quarter of the number of monks ; the number rose rapidly , but even so , in 1154 they were probably less than a fifth the number of monks . |
| 2 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 3 | At Harry 's specially-negotiated price of 20p per litre ( less than a third the price of avgas and cheaper than we can buy heating oil — partly because there is no tax of avtur ) his kerosene costs £180 per hour — not bad for Spitfire speeds and climb performance with twin-engine safety ! |
| 4 | She is about a third the size of the air-conditioned monsters , with two-thirds fewer passengers , and she blends with the panorama of the Nile . |
| 5 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 6 | The French press was bubbling with stories last week about the Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with one report saying it was planning an increase by a third the capacity at its test and assembly plant in Muar , Malaysia , and another promising an accord on tomorrow with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on Flash memories . |
| 7 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 8 | It is almost certain that targets will be set , including efforts to reduce by a third the number of smokers by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Situated 2,300 metres above sea , the air contains about a third the amount of oxygen of that at sea level . |
| 10 | They cost around £50 a piece , less than a tenth the cost of the gas lasers . |
| 11 | At first it would be used to launched satellites at a tenth the cost of the shuttle . |
| 12 | There is a Dunning story of the Canadian who asked where Dunning was and was told that it was next to Forteviot , a village only a tenth the size of Dunning . |
| 13 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |