Example sentences of "[det] than [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 2 | Fewer than half of the undergraduates reported receiving reading lists from all or most of their lecturers . |
| 3 | I think it 's more than that for the seniors . |
| 4 | Some present-day caddies , sponsored by golf equipment companies and able to command ‘ endorsement ’ fees , earn more than many of the players , as well as moving more and more into the limelight . |
| 5 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 6 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 7 | Chloride contamination , which stems from de-icing salts seeping into concrete coverings , was discovered in 144 of 200 bridges selected at random by department inspectors and more than half of the difficulties stemmed from poor workmanship . |
| 8 | The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability . |
| 9 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 10 | For more than half of the years between 1689 and Waterloo in 1815 Britain was at war , mostly with the French . |
| 11 | In more than half of the years between 1713 and 1785 debt service took up more than 40 per cent of total revenue . |
| 12 | More than half of the men , at a recent inspection , did not know when Hitler had come to over and ‘ nobody cares any longer about it ’ . |
| 13 | More than half of the seats checked in a survey were so badly anchored they would be useless in a crash . |
| 14 | More than half of the callers , says Sane , were seriously mentally ill and desperate for help . |
| 15 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 16 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 17 | Erm , we feel very strongly about this that there should be a balance of power with the employer nominating no more than half of the trustees . |
| 18 | More than half of the deaths are attributable to circulatory disease , whilst nearly a third of the population die from cancer . |
| 19 | Yet more than half of the appliances are at risk of damage even personal danger if fitted with the incorrect safety fuse . |
| 20 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 21 | Compared with 1970 , the Liberal vote nearly trebled : at over six million , this vote represented more than half of the votes going to each of the main parties against little over a sixth in 1970 . |
| 22 | To be elected , a candidate should receive more than half of the votes cast nationally and in the majority of union republics in a more than 50 per cent poll . |
| 23 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 24 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 25 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 26 | A condition heavily testing the social fabric in this area is the impact of AIDS ; more than half of the children between 0–13 years have lost both their parents and are in need of assistance . |
| 27 | Still , Dottie Banks had given him more than most of the others . |
| 28 | but he 's , he 's the more that has all the qualifications , he has more than any of the others |
| 29 | Our ‘ need ’ for autonomy is not , of course , total and universal , any more than any of the needs and requirements under discussion here . |
| 30 | Energy is then lost to the surroundings ; so the heat content of the products is less than that of the reactants . |