Example sentences of "[det] than [art] fifth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer than a fifth of the schools kept records of pupils ' achievements in science . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 4 | More than a fifth of all executives were covered last year . |
| 5 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 6 | BBC And The Communities : There was a ‘ worrying difference between the world portrayed by television programmes alone — dominated by young white men — and the real world where more than a fifth of the population is retired , and more than half are female ’ . |
| 7 | Even in 1824 , André Jullien rated the ‘ light and agreeable but weak wines ’ of Beaumont-sur-Vesle no more than a fifth growth in his five-tier ranking of Champagne . |
| 8 | Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater . |
| 9 | The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 . |
| 10 | All in all , exports did not take up more than a fifth of the increase in the output of the economy as a whole . |
| 11 | A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research . |
| 12 | In France the proportion is less than a fifth . |
| 13 | Even when the purchase of NCR is complete , computers will still make up less than a fifth of AT&T 's business . |
| 14 | ( Even so , it was still carrying out less than a fifth as many maintenance dredging programmes as the North-West and Thames Water Authorities . ) |
| 15 | In 1066 the number of English nuns was a quarter of the number of monks ; the number rose rapidly , but even so , in 1154 they were probably less than a fifth the number of monks . |
| 16 | The decline in economic activity among men aged over 65 progressed steadily throughout the century — from roughly two-thirds in the 1900s to one-third in the early 1950s and less than a fifth in the 1970s . |
| 17 | One effect of these pressures can be seen in the age structure of male employees in manufacturing where in small firms over one-third of employees are over 50 years , whereas the proportion in large firms is less than a fifth . |
| 18 | Their rates of economic activity over recent years have followed the male pattern of rapid decline in the 60–4 age group ( from a third in 1973 to less than a fifth in 1988 ) with a similar decline in , the 55–9 age group ( 60 per cent to 48 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Although women comprise less than a fifth of all known offenders , the proportion of young women passing through the courts is rapidly increasing . |