Example sentences of "[det] than [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 2 | In 1979-1980 , fewer than 30% of girls leaving school and under 20% of boys entered full-time further education . |
| 3 | This avoids mass screening and means that fewer than 5% of women will receive intrapartum chemoprophylaxis . |
| 4 | Fewer than 5% of seats changed hands in the 1970 general election . |
| 5 | Two studies have shown that general practitioners can deal with a high proportion of night calls on the telephone , but Sheldon and Harris found that fewer than 3% of night calls received by two deputising services were dealt with by giving advice by telephone without a visit . |
| 6 | The survey said that fewer than 40% of companies had collected the VAT numbers from fewer than half of their customers . |
| 7 | Fewer than 10% of respondents answered this question negatively , making it one of the most unambiguously supported proposals in the paper . |
| 8 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 9 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 10 | Local government expenditure also differs between local authorities : some spend more than others per head of population on particular services ( Foster et al . |
| 11 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 12 | Western governments generally expressed sympathy for the Lithuanian cause and concern at Soviet military pressure and the economic blockade , and Prunskiene was received everywhere by heads of government , but these governments did little more than call for restraint by both sides and for negotiations . |
| 13 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 14 | Already several of the rabbits were asleep , crouched uneasily between the thick stems , aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck . |
| 15 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 16 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 17 | Showing percents requires no more than dots with lines for CIs of a binary outcome variable . |
| 18 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 19 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 20 | More than eggs from Fabergé |
| 21 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 22 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 23 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 24 | The territorial offers were never really more than variations on others made earlier in the war . |
| 25 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 26 | Households are similarly rationed in the goods market , i.e. , on account of ( a ) their failure to sell labour services and ( b ) the unwillingness of firms to produce any more than Y. By way of contrast , firms are in continuous neoclassical equilibrium and are not subject to quantity rationing in either the goods market or the labour market . |
| 27 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 28 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 29 | Indeed , many of the changes that alter the balance in power in Parliament are no more than changes between voting and non-voting , or vice versa . |
| 30 | Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites . |