Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 2 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 3 | Insurance premiums for works travelling to and from Paris have risen sharply over recent years , often representing more than a third of the total cost of an exhibition . |
| 4 | Although rental accommodation comprised more than a third of Pittsburgh 's housing only 5 per cent of URA housing expenditure was expressly devoted to this sector . |
| 5 | Norwegian rules generally forbid foreign investors to own more than a third of an insurer . |
| 6 | A good-looking , pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin , and wrote just as well . |
| 7 | Fats should contribute less than a third of the total energy in your diet . |
| 8 | The 75th anniversary flypast is one of the most ambitious displays the RAF has ever staged , ivolving more than a third of it 's aircraft . |
| 9 | Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp . |
| 10 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 11 | And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here . |
| 12 | The rapid decline in noble land-holding continued , so that by 1914 the nobility owned less than a third of what they had owned in 1861 . |
| 13 | A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research . |
| 14 | Malaysia now produces more than a third of the world 's 's palm oil , and oil palm nuts make an attractive food for the Malayan wood rat ( Rattus tiomanicus ) , the ricefield rat ( Rattus argentiventer ) , and the little rat ( Rattus exulans ) . |
| 15 | This now contributes more than a third of Zurich 's total premium income , and well over 40% of its non-life business . |
| 16 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 17 | Still , critics wonder how an institution next to the Museum of Natural History and a block away from New York 's Columbus Avenue could attract less than a third of the number of visitors who go every year to Norman Rockwell 's home in Stockbridge , Massachusetts . |
| 18 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 19 | Although women comprise less than a fifth of all known offenders , the proportion of young women passing through the courts is rapidly increasing . |
| 20 | Estonia , again , published more than a third as many again books as the USSR average in the late 1980s , and museum and theatre visits were between two and three times the national average . |