Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more than half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Department commissioned an independent review of noise control policy in 1990 and has already taken action on more than half the recommendations . |
| 2 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 3 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 4 | During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million . |
| 5 | ALESSANDRO FIORIO , of Italy , despite being plagued by overheating problems in his Lancia Delta Integrale , extended his lead to more than half a minute during the second stage of the San Remo rally yesterday . |
| 6 | Lack of capital was a limiting factor for more than half the family farmers . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) staffing levels not allowing library supervision for more than half the week : So $8,000 to $10,000 of books are not secure and are there for anyone to take ; |
| 8 | The successful vote on energy policy reflected the broad national consensus which had developed since the issue was last addressed in a referendum in 1983 , when the proposal failed to secure a majority in more than half the cantons as required [ see p. 32643 ] . |
| 9 | Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour . |
| 10 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 11 | A tour round any Mediterranean marina in winter will find faded remnants of national pride hanging like tatty washing from more than half the yachts . |
| 12 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 13 | She stunned the medical team by attempting to make conversation for more than half an hour before she lost consciousness . |
| 14 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 15 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 16 | In the South-East , as one would expect , the South Downs mines supplied the raw material for more than half the axeheads analysed from that region . |
| 17 | Alexandria Gaunt , aged seven months , was trapped in the cot for more than half an hour as her worried family tried to release her . |
| 18 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 19 | In the study area what actually happened was that food crops were displaced from the head to the end of the fertilizer rotation in more than half the cases . |