Example sentences of "in a [num] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a chance in a million that we found each other but we have n't looked back since . |
| 2 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 3 | … When it comes to [ discovering ] pollution it 's one in a thousand that you 'll [ do so ] by sampling — it 's in an officer 's technique … ‘ |
| 4 | I tell myself it 's a chance in a hundred that he 'll keep his word . |
| 5 | In a 1968 editorial it notes the " present muddled , unsatisfactory situation " within English , and recommends that the discipline finally abandon its claim to provide " morally nutritive properties " and simply accept that literature is worth studying for " its own sake " . |