Example sentences of "[adj] than half [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Nearly half of the commission 's 17 panels contained no women , for example , and fewer than half a dozen minorities participated in the exercise .
2 His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies .
3 An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell .
4 An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell .
5 POLICE are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on London for today 's marathon and the League Cup final .
6 Police are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on the capital for this morning 's ADT London Marathon and the Rumbelows League Cup Final at Wembley .
7 From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America .
8 By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group .
9 More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor .
10 With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility .
11 This time round , it will earn her more than half a million pounds .
12 More than half a million people in Britain alone read New Scientist every week .
13 By then they were selling more than half a million major appliances annually .
14 Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese .
15 Duties at 80 per cent on an estate of a million , only reduced by 30 per cent , because of the donor 's death before the end of the sixth year ( to borrow Gerald Venables ' terminology ) would mean that Nigel would be paying more than half a million in estate duty .
16 It found that the system had inflicted an extra 1 million unemployed on Italy and more than half a million on France , and had slowed both countries ' economic growth .
17 We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d .
18 More than half a million party officials were promoted during the period of 1934 – 39 .
19 During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million .
20 The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number .
21 Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south
22 The scale of this operation is such that the rehearsal alone will cost more than half a million pounds in fuel .
23 And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red .
24 MORE than half a million children have been spared three hours of national curriculum maths tests today .
25 Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million .
26 The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) .
27 In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development .
28 Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities .
29 Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis .
30 It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less .
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