Example sentences of "[adj] than a [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 2 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 3 | The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 . |
| 4 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 5 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 6 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 7 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 8 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 9 | This includes more than a few in the occult . |
| 10 | The decline in economic activity among men aged over 65 progressed steadily throughout the century — from roughly two-thirds in the 1900s to one-third in the early 1950s and less than a fifth in the 1970s . |
| 11 | Their rates of economic activity over recent years have followed the male pattern of rapid decline in the 60–4 age group ( from a third in 1973 to less than a fifth in 1988 ) with a similar decline in , the 55–9 age group ( 60 per cent to 48 per cent ) . |
| 12 | It fell even more for geriatric patients — by no less than a third in the same period ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) . |