Example sentences of "[det] than [n mass] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable . |
| 2 | He describes his results as showing ’ limited ’ success ; with fewer than 50% of the mappings being correct . |
| 3 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Fewer than 30% of the CEOs of America 's 150 largest corporations even try to affect the policies of their own Government , ’ claims the author . |
| 5 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 6 | Even in 1983 , with the challenge of the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance and a major redistribution of constituency boundaries , fewer than 16% of the seats changed hands among the various competing parties . |