Example sentences of "[det] than [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 2 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 3 | However , it was found that many large companies took on very few young people ( 20 per cent of those employing above i , 000 recruited fewer than ten per year ( ibid. , p. 47 ) ) . |
| 4 | Anti-republican themes appeared in no fewer than ten of Gillray 's cartoons of 1793 . |
| 5 | In this issue Sibbald and colleagues show that fewer than half of counsellors have received specialist training in counselling . |
| 6 | Fewer than 30 of Britain 's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer . |
| 7 | According to this record landowners were rather thin on the ground , a little more than one in ten of all persons listed in Rutland , and fewer than one-quarter in Buckinghamshire , a county of contrasts . |
| 8 | Dancer , singer , actress , teacher and diplomat , her work is infused with an anger born of a deep knowledge of pain and oppression — racial and sexual — but much more than that with humour and wisdom . |
| 9 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 10 | The Raman scattering due to different vibrations of a particular molecule is generally less variable than the intensity of the different IR bands , but the general level of intensity of Raman spectra varies from molecule to molecule much more than that of IR spectra . |
| 11 | George , Prince of Wales , liked the climate and the local ambience much more than that of London , Windsor or Weymouth . |
| 12 | If yields rise the price of B falls by less than the price of A , while if yields fall the price of B rises by more than that of A. High convexity is therefore a desirable property for bonds to have . |
| 13 | With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end . |
| 14 | Recently it has become possible to convert simultaneously wood chips of a hundred or more hardwood species into paper pulp , which is important , as it is estimated that paper consumption will increase more than that of timber . |
| 15 | The mean density of Venus is therefore 5240 kg/m 3 , rather less than that of the Earth ( 5520 kg/m 3 ) and substantially more than that of Mars ( 3940 kg/m 3 ) . |
| 16 | At night the thermosphere of Venus cools far more than that of Mars , and reaches the low temperatures indicated in Figure 4.7 . |
| 17 | His demonstration nowadays satisfies us no more than that of Descartes . |
| 18 | A row is simply expressing your own point of view forcefully , so it 's no wonder that most families row more than usual at Christmas , the season of peace , goodwill — and a considerable degree of stress . |
| 19 | This was always ‘ the morning after the day before ’ for Dad who used to eat much more than usual on Christmas Day and the nuts that he consumed , plus the unaccustomed glass or two of Cripp 's Tarragona wine all went to help upset his tummy . |
| 20 | A report as long ago as 1975 found that more than two-thirds of Yorkshire 's water mains needed replacing , mainly because of corrosion . |
| 21 | A BBC survey showed more than two-thirds of churchgoers back women 's ordination . |
| 22 | A BBC survey showed more than two-thirds of churchgoers back women 's ordination . |
| 23 | These arguments are more than familiar to readers of this journal and , considered purely as philosophical debates , they are impressively rigorous and difficult to refute . |
| 24 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 25 | Intel has been quietly improving the performance of its next-generation iAPX-86 variant — which now , said by the company to be at over 100 MIPS , is more than equivalent to MIPS ' R4000 RISC — and has brought forward its delivery dates . |
| 26 | THE Tories were slammed last night for presiding over the loss of more than one-third of Britain 's manufacturing jobs — 2.5 MILLION . |
| 27 | More than one-third of self-poisoners use preparations which can be bought over the counter ( Proudfoot and Park 1978 ) . |
| 28 | More than one-third of parents felt this did not happen whereas staff said they would always do it . |
| 29 | MORE than one-third of Shetland council house tenants are behind with rent , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |