Example sentences of "a [num ord] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 2 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 3 | Moreover , trade union students , at around a fifth or a quarter of all short-course students , are a smaller proportion of the total than we hoped . |
| 4 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives . |
| 6 | In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports . |
| 7 | Later that month an ambiguous assembly in the king 's chamber granted a subsidy of one eighth and a fifth and a wool prise of 8000 sacks in return for a royal promise to confirm the charters . |
| 8 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 9 | So if we added a third and a quarter could you turn them into twelfths ? |
| 10 | Say add a third and a quarter ca n't do that do n't know where to start . |
| 11 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 12 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 13 | of the total populations recorded , and Willow Warblers occupied between a third and a half of this percentage . |
| 14 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 15 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 16 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 17 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 18 | Other surveys have estimated that as many as a third or a quarter of prisoners may have mental health problems ( Fennell , 1991 ) . |
| 19 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
| 20 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 21 | There is a mar if you got a two two for a piece of course work , ok , it would easily get an equivalent two two in an exam would be the eq would be about a third or a pass , yeah ? |
| 22 | Instead of the present arrangements which have served us so well , a politician in London for the time being Home Secretary will appoint five members to the authority , or roughly a third when the size of the authority is larger than sixteen . |
| 23 | Gilts , after four days of rising quotations , softened an eighth as the pound took a breather . |