Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 2 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 3 | A follow-up meeting between the movement and the king never materialised , and after the two clashes on the border King Hassan has called off a second meeting . |
| 4 | The second wave of Trusts has become like a second hand car sale . |
| 5 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 6 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 7 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 8 | Tests of the head do not definitely identify its age and Oxford has asked for a second sample . |
| 9 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 10 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) Where any property transferred under an agreement to which this section applies has passed to a third party the references to that property in subsections ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above shall be construed as references to its value at the time of its transfer under the agreement . |
| 12 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 13 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 14 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 15 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 16 | Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal . |
| 17 | Kenneth , last seen nineteen eighty two , lived in the Sleaford area , a retired senior nursing officer at Hospital Holbeach , er m may have married for a second time , Kenneth he 's got a son Ian Mark . |
| 18 | She is thought to have fallen from an eighth floor window . |
| 19 | Neo-suedehead singer Andy appears to have gone through a second puberty , his former growling style of delivery having fallen down an octave well and climbed out deeper and darker . |
| 20 | But 1961 social class II fertility was almost as high as that of class III , while that of IV and V — semi-skilled and unskilled workers — had fallen by a tenth or more . |
| 21 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 22 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |
| 23 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 24 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 25 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 26 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 27 | Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been turned down . |
| 28 | Tamas had led in a first round of polling on Dec. 9 , but the result had been declared void because the turnout did not reach the necessary 50 per cent [ see p. 37130 ] . |
| 29 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 30 | In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third . |