Example sentences of "one [conj] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable . |
| 2 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |
| 3 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 4 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 5 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 6 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 7 | They would look to the er er to the constitution of of of France in say seventeen ninety one or the more radicals amongst them would look erm the more er the more radical liberal if that 's not er , if that 's not a , not a contradiction in terms , do n't think it is . |
| 8 | So I need one and a half boxes |
| 9 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 10 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 11 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 12 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 13 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 14 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 15 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 16 | In addition , as users pay one and a half times more per MIPS on an upgrade than on a new machine , their investment is not protected . |
| 17 | Leading brake manufacturers AP Lockheed calculate riders hit more than 1.5g under braking , which means weight of rider and machine is increased one and a half times . |
| 18 | We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times . |
| 19 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 20 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 21 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 22 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 23 | The ratio of Mercury 's orbital and axial sidereal periods means that , as illustrated in Figure 7.2 , for every orbit of the Sun Mercury rotates one and a half times around its axis . |
| 24 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
| 25 | In the case of well-motivated students with a high aptitude , the learning rate may be increased by one and a half times or even more , according to Valette and Disick . |
| 26 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the weekly cost to someone on one and a half times male average earnings of abolition of the national insurance upper earnings limit . |
| 28 | Someone earning £490 a week , which is about one and a half times average male earnings , would pay an extra £9 per week in national insurance contributions if the upper earnings limit was abolished . |
| 29 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 30 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |