Example sentences of "the [num] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 2 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 3 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 4 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 5 | Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future . |