Example sentences of "of [adv] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 2 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 3 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 4 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 5 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether he 's read the County Farms Estate report , but it was actually option two , was one of the proposals we had to consider , which was to was to dispose of about a third of the estate , reduce it from twelve thousand acres to nine thousand acres , which was actually rejected at erm , the property sub-committee by all parties , including Labour . |
| 7 | Technical developments in both polyethylene film and paper production have led to material savings of about a third for the same performance , good news environmentally and commercially . |
| 8 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 9 | The jobs of around a tenth of Barnsley 's 7,000 borrowers are under threat . |
| 10 | For example , in October 1974 the Labour Government secured the support of 39.2 per cent of those who voted and just over a quarter of the electorate ; in 1979 the Conservatives gained 43.9 per cent of the vote and the support of around a third of the electorate ; and in 1983 , the Conservative landslide of seats ( their parliamentary majority trebled ) was based on just 42.4 per cent of the vote — less than they got when they lost in 1964 , less than they got in 1979 , the fifth-lowest Conservative vote since the war , and the lowest vote-count by a government with a secure majority since 1922 . |
| 11 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has published a document setting out ways of protecting groundwater , the source of around a third of Britain 's drinking water . |
| 12 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 13 | By 1932 , when Hitler was running for Reich President and the Nazi Movement was gaining the support of over a third of the population , the ‘ Jewish Question , scarcely featured in Hitler 's public addresses . |
| 14 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | After 1976 there was a massive decline in manufacturing as a whole with a fall of over a third in total manufacturing jobs in the region between 1976 and 1984 . |