Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 2 | Similarly in the British regional heart study age , smoking , systolic blood pressure , and serum cholesterol concentration accounted for less than a sixth of the 1.5 fold social class differences in coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality . |
| 3 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 4 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 5 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 6 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 7 | Between 1982 — when Mexico threatened default — and the end of 1985 , the dividends declared by the big nine banks increased by more than a third . |
| 8 | The Herald of Free Enterprise overturned in less than a minute . |
| 9 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 10 | MEDICS and police last night worked for more than an hour to rescue a teenage girl who fell 30ft down a railway embankment . |
| 11 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 12 | Over the decade from 1960 to 1970 the rate of all offences committed by females in this age group doubled , while the comparable male rate increased by less than a half . |
| 13 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 14 | In Oscar Chinn Judge Schucking thought that parties to a treaty which had placed restrictions upon conflicting treaties concluded by less than the full complement of parties to the former treaty , could regard as invalid a subsequent treaty concluded by a minority to the first treaty . |
| 15 | By the early 1970s rice accounted for less than a third of production by value , with the biggest increase showing in market gardening and animal-based products . |
| 16 | 1.3. b ( iv ) Of the 22 courses listed of less than a week , across all institutions , only one ( at a University ) was language related . |
| 17 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 18 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |
| 19 | Consent of the shareholders by ordinary resolution is required , unless the articles permit the board to sanction payments without shareholder approval , or provide that a resolution passed by more than a simple majority of shareholders must be obtained . |
| 20 | He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up . |
| 21 | In the Alameda country study age , sex , race , socioeconomic factors ( income , education , employment ) , health status , health related behaviours ( smoking , alcohol consumption , physical activity , body mass index , and sleep patterns ) , access to medical care , social support , and psychological factors accounted for less than a sixth of the 1.7-fold difference in mortality from all causes between poor and more affluent areas . |
| 22 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |