Example sentences of "[det] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's more to this than questions of individual fitness . |
| 2 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 3 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 4 | In 1980 , fewer than 6% of the total school population were attending assisted and independent schools — yet more than a quarter of University entrants continued to be drawn from private schools . |
| 5 | In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable . |
| 6 | In January , for the first time since April 1985 , fewer than 50% of new apartments in the greater Tokyo area were sold ; Daikyo , Japan 's leading apartment-block developer , had a nationwide sales rate of only 47% . |
| 7 | He describes his results as showing ’ limited ’ success ; with fewer than 50% of the mappings being correct . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | What interested me particularly about Bennett 's work was another statistic which emerged — that in 1976 , considerably fewer than 17% of the primary schools in the study could be described as progressive and that 83% were ‘ middle of the way ’ or formal . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | In 1979-1980 , fewer than 30% of girls leaving school and under 20% of boys entered full-time further education . |
| 12 | This avoids mass screening and means that fewer than 5% of women will receive intrapartum chemoprophylaxis . |
| 13 | Fewer than 5% of those who consulted a doctor were referred to a nurse or incontinence clinic , a figure which accords with that of Briggs and Williams , who found 42 of 101 general practitioners surveyed never used the service of a continence adviser for older patients although the service was available to them . |
| 14 | Fewer than 5% of seats changed hands in the 1970 general election . |
| 15 | Two studies have shown that general practitioners can deal with a high proportion of night calls on the telephone , but Sheldon and Harris found that fewer than 3% of night calls received by two deputising services were dealt with by giving advice by telephone without a visit . |
| 16 | The survey said that fewer than 40% of companies had collected the VAT numbers from fewer than half of their customers . |
| 17 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Fewer than 10% of respondents answered this question negatively , making it one of the most unambiguously supported proposals in the paper . |
| 20 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
| 21 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 22 | Children appear to benefit more than adults from the increased opportunities for interaction and recreation , a conclusion confirmed by Eubank-Ahrens ' research in German Woonerven . |
| 23 | Britten had heard Gershwin 's opera in America , and his own solitary previous stage work , Paul Bunyan , evidently owes still more than Grimes to the American show tradition . |
| 24 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 25 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 26 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 27 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 28 | Local government expenditure also differs between local authorities : some spend more than others per head of population on particular services ( Foster et al . |
| 29 | For some groups of people benefit more than others from these laws . |
| 30 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |