Example sentences of "[verb] more than a fraction " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 2 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 3 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 4 | Rich countries should accept that they do not have , and never will have , facilities to recycle more than a fraction of the rubbish they create . |
| 5 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
| 6 | Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend . |
| 7 | Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed . |
| 8 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 9 | Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch . |