Example sentences of "to [adv] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 2 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the Report estimated that the proportion of dependents who were elderly would increase over that period from 12 per cent to nearly a third by 1979 . |
| 4 | ( b ) Where in addition there is a second charge If the former matrimonial home to be conveyed or transferred to the wife is subject to both a first and second charge it may be that whilst the first mortgagee is prepared to release the husband , upon having a direct covenant by the wife , the second mortgagee is not so agreeable . |
| 5 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
| 6 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 7 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 8 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 9 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 10 | The bushes had recently been cut down ‘ to about a third of their former dimension ’ . |
| 11 | In May 1358 the French agreed to cede Aquitaine with other territories amounting to about a third of the kingdom , in full sovereignty , and to pay , in addition , 4,000,000 crowns ( £666,666 ) for the ransom of their king . |
| 12 | Latvians , 77 per cent of the population of their republic before the war , had fallen to 52 per cent in the 1989 census , and to about a third of the population of their capital city , Riga . |
| 13 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 14 | Cos there 's about a twenty five percent in workers per hectare , which actually would lead to about a third a third increase in the provision . |
| 15 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 16 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 17 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 18 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 19 | Of the single unitary voyage , worth 1.00,0.61 will have contributed to the election of Paisley , 0.10 will have contributed to the election of Craig , and 0.29 can pass to a third candidate ; and should that candidate be consequently elected with a transferable surplus , the 0.29 of a vote can , down-valued yet again , pass to yet a fourth candidate . |