Example sentences of "one [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is a one in a thousand one in a thousand like my my Gerald that thought about his duties , his responsibilities , his tender fatherly fig . |
| 2 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 3 | Fewer people had receivers : perhaps one in twenty or twenty-five households in Ajdabiya , and perhaps only one in a hundred in Kufra . |
| 4 | Of course the difference between rich and poor worlds in this respect is still enormous and obscene : at the extremes , 30 children in every hundred born in the West African country of Mali will die before the age of five , compared to just one in a hundred in Australia , Canada and the UK . |
| 5 | The chance of this happening is approximately one in a 1,000 for vasectomy , and one in 500 for female sterilisation . |