Example sentences of "[adj] than [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page . |
| 2 | Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables . |
| 3 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 4 | For example , in his national survey of household resources and standards of living , Townsend found that a higher proportion of older lone women than lone men had less than £100 worth of assets and fewer than six consumer durables . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that within the borough of Islington , which includes the Holloway travel-to-work area , fewer than 100 school leavers last year were able to find jobs and that , at the Holloway unemployment office , there is a gap between the 32 registered vacancies and the 11,600 people who are registered as unemployed ? |
| 6 | It is likely that a group of fewer than 100 boat people will be sent back just before the arrival in Hong Kong of the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , planned for mid-January . |
| 7 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 8 | Baggage and goods were handled on a sub-track level , and one of the advantages of the new arrangements was that no fewer than fifteen street level-crossings were eliminated . |
| 9 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 10 | In the next forty years no fewer than 1,479 enclosure acts were passed , dealing with nearly 2½ million acres . |
| 11 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 12 | And although he wrote no fewer than twelve String Quartets between the ages of fourteen and nineteen , as well as a set of Variations for String Quartet Op. 93 , these two are Rheinberger 's only two mature works for a medium in which he obviously felt very much at home . |
| 13 | The supermarket giant has had no fewer than four scrip issues in this period and on each occasion the number of shares held has effectively doubled . |
| 14 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 15 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 16 | of farmers across Europe who are large farmers and that small farmers — those with less than 125 acres of cereals , fewer than 90 beef cows or fewer than 40 milk cows — are not affected ? |
| 17 | Their four regular seam bowlers — Allan Donald , Tim Munton , Gladstone Small and Dermot Reeve — took no fewer than 244 Championship wickets between them . |
| 18 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 19 | Goal king McGaughey bagged no fewer than seven League medals in his long Linfield reign as Ulster 's No 1 striker before moving to Ards in the summer . |
| 20 | This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered . |
| 21 | of farmers across Europe who are large farmers and that small farmers — those with less than 125 acres of cereals , fewer than 90 beef cows or fewer than 40 milk cows — are not affected ? |
| 22 | Yet it was estimated in 1967 that to cover the country no fewer than thirty-three TV transmitters would be needed at a cost then of about K12 million . |
| 23 | On Sundays no fewer than 15 church services were available . |
| 24 | With fewer than 150 breeding females the breed remains in the RBST 's ‘ Critical ’ category among the rare breeds , treasured as the Trust 's symbol . |
| 25 | Fewer than 50 bird species are polyandrous . |
| 26 | I made no fewer than three telephone calls . |
| 27 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 28 | Heron Granges , a specialist computer insurance company , also guarantees response times within eight hours , thanks to agreements with no fewer than three maintenance companies . |
| 29 | Fifty two per cent of patients receiving prednisolone had formed stools after four weeks , compared with 29% receiving fluticasone propionate ( p=0.007 ) ; 60% had no bleeding , compared with 45% for the fluticasone propionate group ( p=0.021 ) ; and 73% had fewer than three bowel motions a day compared with 41% of those receiving fluticasone propionate ( p=0.001 ) . |
| 30 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |