Example sentences of "one in five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey showed one in five parents were promoted once their children were given after-school care . |
| 2 | One in five parents and one in 10 children in homeless families had gone without food in the past month because of lack of money . |
| 3 | Research in 1970 on NILTs showed that about half of claimants do not attend the hearing and that representation was present only in one in five cases ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | The overall success rate has remained fairly constant over the years at about one in five cases . |
| 5 | Merrill Lynch found that ‘ one in five companies who provide assistance with bridging finance do not set a time limit , 28 per cent provide assistance for up to three months and 41 per cent for four to six months ’ . |
| 6 | One in five students surveyed at Bristol university had debts exceeding £5,000 , says the report by Dr Kieran Smart . |
| 7 | As has been said , only one in five Trusts have said they 'll honour the terms and conditions of the National Health Service workers and we 've seen the disgraceful decisions that 're being made in . |
| 8 | One in five adults could not understand a simple job advert or subtract £17.89 from £20 to calculate the change from a shopping bill . |
| 9 | Is the Minister aware that three annual checks by Welsh trading standards officers discovered that as many as one in five lorries on Welsh roads are overloaded , yet the chance of being checked is one in every 5,000 journeys ? |
| 10 | One in five pairs of socks sold in Britain is made by Sherwood , which can turn around designs in a matter of hours , allowing it to respond quickly to high fashion for its high street customers which include Marks & Spencer , BhS and Littlewoods . |
| 11 | The Census of 1981 revealed that this figure had dropped to one in five residents in Wales . |
| 12 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 13 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |
| 14 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 15 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 16 | It is anticipated that one in five Britons will be carers by the turn of the century . |
| 17 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 18 | One in five bottles of Scotch whisky exported is Johnnie Walker . |
| 19 | One in five faults were faulty roofs , and a further fifth were problems with the external walls . |
| 20 | One in five families with children are now being cared for by a single parent — nearly all of them women — compared with one in 12 in 1972 . |
| 21 | One in five families now own three television sets . |
| 22 | One in five appellants had made some attempt to obtain advice prior to the hearing , but only one in eight appellants is represented by an expert , as distinct from being accompanied by another member of the family or a friend without expert knowledge . |
| 23 | A survey by MORI estimates one in five sufferers never tell their partners . |
| 24 | Even so , one in five pensioners rely entirely on state benefits for their income . |
| 25 | Whereas two out of three people aged between 18 and 34 are paying off some current credit commitment , fewer than one in five pensioners are . |
| 26 | It has been estimated that if present rates of divorce and fertility continue , one in 22 under-fives will have divorced parents , and one in five 16-year-olds . |
| 27 | FPA director Doreen Massey said : ‘ When one in three of all pregnancies is unwanted and one in five ends in abortion , GPs and clinics must work together to ensure that their combined services are reaching this huge area of need . ’ |
| 28 | One in five trees in 24 European countries is severely damaged by pollution , according to a report prepared jointly by the European Commission and UN Economic Commission for Europe . |
| 29 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
| 30 | One in five children was likely to have behavioural problems due to a deprived home life and other factors , Professor Stone said . |