Example sentences of "than [art] [num ord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 2 | Fewer than a fifth of the schools kept records of pupils ' achievements in science . |
| 3 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 5 | In Morris ' study of the households of forty redundant steelworkers , kin were providing extra help — mostly in the form of food and clothes for the children — for less than a third of the families ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 7 | High levels of unemployment , mortgage arrears and family break-ups are the chief causes of homelessness and more than a third of the properties will be targetted at those groups . |
| 8 | Even in his defence of Needham , Dr Chapman admits that at one mill more than a third of the apprentices died , absconded or had to be returned and only two out of 780 apprentices recruited were later employed as adult workers . |
| 9 | More than a third of the undergraduates never ordered books at the university bookshops , and less than a third of the grant provided by the Department of Education and Science was spent as it was supposed to be . |
| 10 | Less than a third of the teenagers questioned earned any extra money from part time jobs . |
| 11 | That is , less than a third of the clergy are members of the DUP . |
| 12 | In 1635 , the churchwardens of Beckington in Somerset were excommunicated and imprisoned for defying the authorities ; yet the following year William Piers , Bishop of Bath and Wells , admitted that fewer than a third of the parishes in his diocese had converted their communion tables into altars . |
| 13 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |