Example sentences of "[det] than [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 23 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 24 | More than quarter of a million pounds has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 25 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 26 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 27 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 28 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 29 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 30 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |