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one in ——
b. one in ——: expressing probability, frequency, proportion, etc.one in a million: see million adj. and n. Phrases 2.
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1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales vi. iv. 126 By a Tribunitian law it was brought vnto halfe one in the hundred; and in the end vsury was wholy forbidden.]
1662 J. Graunt Bills of Mortality iii Agues and Fevers are entred promiscuously, yet..it appears that not above one in 40, of the whole are Agues.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 9 Scarce one, in Five Thousand..knows so much as what Popery means.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ii. 17 There is not, perhaps, one in ten thousand [women] who is capable of making a good Actress. View more context for this quotation
1880 Bradstreet's 28 Feb. 2/3 The credit-man of a large dry goods jobbing house stated that..not one in five hundred gave them notes.
1917 A. Woollcott Let. Oct. (1944) 38 He is a marvel of good humor, consideration and dignity—one in a thousand.
1949 Chicago Daily News 9 Aug. 10/5 His chance of becoming an American railroad president is probably about one in ten million.
1998 Amer. Health for Women Sept. 103/3 One in 1,000 people has this neurological disorder.
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c. one in ——: designating a slope where a change of one unit in the height or vertical direction corresponds to a change of the specified number of units horizontally. Also as n.: a slope with the specified gradient. Cf. in prep. 9.A smaller number corresponds to a steeper slope; thus a slope of one in seven is steeper than a slope of one in fifteen.
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1830 M. Edgeworth Let. 18 Oct. (1971) 419 The inclined plane the rise of which was one in 36.
1883 Manch. Examiner 7 Nov. 5/5 The impossible gradient of one in 25..is..denounced..as the haulage would have to be trebled, and three horses employed in place of one.
1910 R. Kipling in Pearson's Mag. Oct. 365/2 It was all of a one in three gradient.
1968 N. Tranter Cable from Kabul iii. 37 Down at the foot of a one-in-three hill, I found myself in some sort of village.
1976 J. Wainwright Bastard i. 11 I slither and skid the car up the one-in-six.
2000 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Sport section) 9 I couldn't believe the conditions... It must have been a one in four slope across the pitch.
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