Example sentences of "[verb] more than a fraction of " in BNC.
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1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
2 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
3 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
4 | Rich countries should accept that they do not have , and never will have , facilities to recycle more than a fraction of the rubbish they create . |
5 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
6 | Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend . |
7 | Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed . |
8 | Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch . |