Example sentences of "[conj] more than half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mercosur countries , comprising a market of 192,000,000 people , had a combined gross national product of US$420,000 million , or more than half the total for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 2 | I had to change the A-level economics syllabus to take account of yet more dotty ideas that poured out of the Department of Economic Affairs , of national plans that were revised because they did not work and of huge methods of distributing money through regional policy , where more than half the country was part of a development area . |
| 3 | People must have the right not to belong to a union , but where more than half the workforce demonstrate in a postal ballot that they want to belong , they should be allowed bargaining rights . ’ |
| 4 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 5 | Progress in further education has been rapid , to the extent that a 1985 national survey undertaken by the National Bureau for Handicapped Students for the DES , and published as Catching Up ? , showed that more than half the colleges in England ran special courses for 16 to 19 year olds with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 6 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 7 | The survey shows that more than half the companies which have smoking restrictions introduced them after pressure from the workforce , with a quarter having the issue raised through health and safety committees . |
| 8 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 9 | Some claim that the numbers are bound to improve now that more than half the country 's workforce is female or from a minority . |
| 10 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 11 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 13 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 14 | Those letters tell us that more than half the TECs are not meeting the youth guarantee . |
| 15 | Small wonder that the Krupp works in Essen rose from seventy-two workers in 1848 to almost 12,000 in 1873 , or that Schneider in France had multiplied to 12,500 in 1870 , so that more than half the population of the town of Creusot worked in their blast furnaces , rolling-mills , power-hammers and engineering workshops . |
| 16 | All referendums so far have failed to reach the required majority , although more than half the electorate voted in favour . |
| 17 | If you are male , of at least medium height , and more than half a stone overweight . |
| 18 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 19 | And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising . |
| 20 | A survey published in September 1986 by accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell revealed that out of a total of 213 British companies seeking a flotation on the OTC markets by August 1st 1986,80 raised money under the BES terms , and more than half the OTC entrants were BES schemes . |
| 21 | About a third of the continent and more than half the country 's farmlands are , as a result , now affected by soil erosion , and conservative estimates put the cost of ‘ repair ’ at 1 billion dollars . |
| 22 | Total employment is now almost half a million less than the numbers Mrs Thatcher inherited in 1979 , and more than half the jobs lost have been among the self-employed . |
| 23 | Despite huge debts and a still disproportionate reliance on farming , an enviable record of strong growth and low inflation matches an appetite for change that ought not to be surprising in a society where half the population is under 28 ( and more than half the nuns and priests are over 60 ) . |
| 24 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 25 | Essential field trips could be charged for if more than half the time spent on the visit was outside school hours , and ‘ optional extras ’ such as individual music lessons might also incur a charge . |
| 26 | Most have no-smoking areas or designated smoking rooms , but more than half the companies still without restrictions reported less tolerance for smokers . |
| 27 | But more than half the assets of Japanese and German funds are bonds . |
| 28 | Since more than half the states at present existing are less than 40 years old , this seriously limits the incidence of the traditional ‘ principle of nationality ’ . |
| 29 | As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth . |
| 30 | A Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization ( PICAO ) was created , with its seat in Montreal , to become a permanent organization when more than half the Chicago delegates had ratified the appropriate convention . |