Example sentences of "[adj] than half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , for example , that at Kingston-upon-Hull fewer than half the building plots in the royal town had been taken up by 1320 , a generation after the original planning . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , fewer than half the health districts in the United Kingdom have established cardiac rehabilitation programmes . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher was concerned not simply that fewer than half the electorate bothered to participate in the choosing of their local council , but that many eligible electors were not themselves local taxpayers . |
| 4 | What we do know is that pre-emption means that no fewer than half the power stations ' fuel markets in England and Wales are entirely removed from the danger of competition . |
| 5 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 6 | A detachment can not be larger than half the size of its parent regiment , so a regiment of twenty men could have a detachment of ten . |
| 7 | The tunnels were gloomier , the only illumination coming from occasional bf tubes suspended awkwardly from holes hacked at random in the roof , no more than half a metre above their heads . |
| 8 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 9 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 10 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 11 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 12 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 13 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 14 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 15 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 16 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 17 | If you are male , of at least medium height , and more than half a stone overweight . |
| 18 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 19 | If you put more than half a stone on |
| 20 | The static torque/ rotor position characteristic repeats with a wavelength of one rotor tooth pitch , so the rotor only returns to the correct step position if it is not displaced by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 21 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 22 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 23 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 24 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 25 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 26 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 27 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 28 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 29 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 30 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |