Example sentences of "[coord] a fifth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could buy this lolly … five chews … or a fifth of a Mars bar |
| 2 | Israeli troops killed four Palestinians yesterday and a fifth was beaten to death by fellow Arabs for alleged collaboration with Israel , Reuter reports . |
| 3 | Now , nearly the whole output of houses is built under contract to local authorities and the remainder — between a tenth and a fifth of the whole — are built by licence to individual order . |
| 4 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 5 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 6 | As well as the extreme distress and loss of life this condition can cause , the hospital costs of dealing with the fractures are some £160 million a year , and a fifth of orthopaedic beds are occupied by such cases . |
| 7 | A fourth day would be used for outreach work , to include training other organisations , home visits and issue-based talks to other groups ; and a fifth day would concentrate on pro-active rather than reactive social policy work ( see Chapter 8 for an expansion of these concepts ) . |
| 8 | Bullets for those that could n't keep up and a fifth of a loaf a day for those that could . |
| 9 | The Civil Justice Review found that a third of banks and building societies , and a fifth of local authorities , did not enquire about the debtor 's circumstances before the hearing . |
| 10 | Most of these future buy-in managers are currently in their forties , although 23 percent are in their thirties and a fifth are over 50 . |
| 11 | January sees the start of a fourth series , and a fifth will be filmed in the spring . |
| 12 | Lloyd Walker is poised to replace Lynagh and a fifth replacement could be called if Michael Brial 's injury does not clear up quickly . |
| 13 | A quarter of non-executives believed they should have the last word on mergers ( 10% of chief executives agreed ) and a fifth ( compared with 3% of the bosses ) thought they should approve major borrowings and loans . |
| 14 | G-ARJU has two separate seats behind the front pair and a fifth one at the back . |
| 15 | One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications . |
| 16 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |
| 17 | Later that month an ambiguous assembly in the king 's chamber granted a subsidy of one eighth and a fifth and a wool prise of 8000 sacks in return for a royal promise to confirm the charters . |
| 18 | Hindu society in traditional India was divided into five main strata : four varnas or castes , and a fifth group , the outcaste , whose members were known as untouchables . |
| 19 | Partly because of the reliance of many older married women on their husband 's state pension contributions , the proportion staying in the labour market beyond the age of 60 has remained fairly high ( between a quarter and a fifth , compared with 8 per cent of men working beyond the age of 65 ) . |
| 20 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |
| 21 | Art came second , with more space devoted to it than either maths or language ; it accounted for just over a quarter of all curriculum-specific work areas for younger pupils , and a fifth of those for older pupils . |
| 22 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 23 | And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through . |
| 24 | All the above chords , if transposed a fifth lower , are suitable for the viola , and , if transposed an octave and a fifth lower , for the cello also . |
| 25 | The three great grain stations were La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Plaine-Saint-Denis , and Saint Ouen-les-Docks , which between them received a quarter of all the grain and a fifth of all the flour brought into Paris by train . |
| 26 | For example , a third of the population of the London Borough of Brent has a head of household born in the New Commonwealth , as does a quarter of the London Borough of Ealing , and a fifth of Leicester and of Slough . |
| 27 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 28 | And a fifth of businesses with turnover of up to £1m said they had no firm of lawyers with whom they deal with on a regular basis at all . |
| 29 | A quiet swear word now serves instead of a punch-up with one of her woods , while she had encouraging finishes such as a fourth equal in the Players ' Championship at Tytherington and a fifth place in the recent Gislaved Ladies ' Open in Sweden . |
| 30 | Following a three-day meeting in London on Sept. 24-26 , the Sino-British Liaison Group ( JLG ) announced that Hong Kong 's Court of Final Appeal , which in 1993 would replace the Privy Council in London , would be composed of the Chief Justice , three Hong Kong-based judges and a fifth member to be invited alternately from two panels — Panel A , containing retired and serving Court of Appeal judges in Hong Kong , and Panel B , made up of retired judges from other common law jurisdictions . |