Example sentences of "than [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the night of 6 September 1830 , more than 500 of them were out there breaking up bridges , hedges , and ditches . |
| 2 | The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects . |
| 3 | Roseline Bacou 's introduction to the Louvre catalogue points out that the collection there includes more than 500 of Pouncey 's attributions , and goes on to analyse his ‘ supreme art ’ as a connoisseur . |
| 4 | There are fewer than 500 of the shy birds left in Britain ; their numbers have been hit by earlier cutting of grass and silage , which destroyed their nests and young . |
| 5 | No less than eleven of them were the products of public schools . |
| 6 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 7 | The PCB content is less than one-fiftieth of the American breathing air standard . |
| 8 | Rivers , lakes , soils and the atmosphere , the obvious sources of freshwater , contain about 200 000 cubic kilometres of water — less than one-fiftieth of 1 per cent of the world 's total water supply . |
| 9 | I kept a log , naturally , and therefore have it recorded that it took no less than thirty-seven of these supposed flight experiments before my trusty long-handled trowel , in biting the Skull Grounds ' earth skin , struck something harder than the sandy soil , and I finally knew where the dog 's bones were . |
| 10 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 11 | Richard Rose 's review of the Gallup survey on twenty political issues found that majorities of voters for all three parties agree with each other on more than two-thirds of all issues , that most Alliance voters agree with the national majority on nineteen of twenty issues , and that most Conservative and Labour voters with the majority on seventeen of twenty issues . |
| 12 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 13 | Donors delivered a bit less than two-thirds of what was thought necessary after Ethiopia 's 1989 crop failure . |
| 14 | Rather than follow their British and American counterparts , who fed a property frenzy with mezzanine debt , deep-discount bonds and other financial wheezes , Germany 's more prudent bankers have consistently refused to lend more than two-thirds of the value of a development project . |
| 15 | For a tenant to claim the benefits of the Act he must show that his tenancy is of a house , that it was originally granted for more than twenty-one years , that the rent payable is less than two-thirds of its rateable value , and that the rateable value is itself not in excess of certain modest limits . |
| 16 | One important political ingredient giving shape to the results in the districts was the failure of the Democrats to contest more than two-thirds of the vacancies , compared with the Alliance 's presence in over 85% of wards in 1986 . |
| 17 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 18 | A report as long ago as 1975 found that more than two-thirds of Yorkshire 's water mains needed replacing , mainly because of corrosion . |
| 19 | Commented RAC Rescue Services head of marketing , Andy Brown : ‘ It is quite amazing to think that many of the longest surviving members have belonged to the RAC for more than two-thirds of its 95-year history . |
| 20 | First , the proportion of people who remained unmoved by disclosure of credit costs and interest rates — on average , more than two-thirds of the sample — was large . |
| 21 | A BBC survey showed more than two-thirds of churchgoers back women 's ordination . |
| 22 | A BBC survey showed more than two-thirds of churchgoers back women 's ordination . |
| 23 | And it is believed that more than two-thirds of the entire population of seven million needs food desperately . |
| 24 | More than two-thirds of those aged 60 or over when interviewed had received a redundancy payment of £3,000 or more . |
| 25 | It was also economic : for example , after 1945 British steel production was more than two-thirds of the combined total of the other European members of the future OEEC , while its coal output nearly equalled that of all the other West European states . |
| 26 | During 1986 and 1987 , more than two-thirds of their work was repeat business ; in 1985 it had been 80% , so much of the increase in volume was due to winning new clients . |
| 27 | Yet by 1985 more than two-thirds of further education colleges , for example , ran special courses for such students . |
| 28 | To pursue that vision Mr Levin is giving up a lot : after Toshiba , ITOCHU and US West , Time Warner is left with just 63% of TWE , which produces more than two-thirds of the group 's cash flow . |
| 29 | In 1778 , when an English captain could remark that ‘ more than two-thirds of my quarter deck are Scotch ’ , the proportion of Scots among the officers of a vessel commanded by one of their own countrymen would be substantial . |
| 30 | More than two-thirds of those workstations which did make it into that market were Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |