Example sentences of "one in [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , over one in five said they would prefer weekly . |
| 2 | Among financial and personnel managers generally , one in four admitted they would not choose the same career again , 60% were satisfied with their choice , and 15% were unsure . |
| 3 | About one in four reckon they 're good for ten minutes , though just under one in five admit to ejaculating in less than two minutes . |
| 4 | Only a quarter said they did it for love and just over one in six admitted it was a drunken fling . |
| 5 | One in eight said they would prefer to have the instalments collected individually . |
| 6 | One in five of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed believed that it costs less than £4000 per person , one in three estimated costs in the range of £4000 to £6000 and a further one in three thought it costs over £6000 per employee . |
| 7 | A poll of 400 of the world 's leading climatologists organized by Greenpeace has shown that almost half think it possible that the greenhouse effect might reach the point of no return in the near future , and one in seven think it probable . |
| 8 | And only a fraction over one in ten said they even fancied someone else , a survey for TV Times and ITV 's Wish You Were Here programme found . |