Example sentences of "have only a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 2 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 3 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 4 | Central defender Vince Overson has only a 5050 chance of being fit . |
| 5 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 6 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 7 | Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman have a serious look at capital allowances , especially for plant and machinery , which should not have only a 25 per cent . |
| 8 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 9 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 10 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 11 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 12 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |