Example sentences of "[det] than half [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer than half of the undergraduates reported receiving reading lists from all or most of their lecturers . |
| 2 | Fewer than half of the district 's households that include a pensioner have a car . |
| 3 | On Barro Colorado Island , pollinator specificity occurs in fewer than half of the orchid species and host specificity of the bees is also rare . |
| 4 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 5 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 6 | By 1966 little more than half of the country 's urban population enjoyed local air pollution control ; of almost 600 counties with a population greater than 50,000 , fewer than 90 had control programmes , and most of these programmes were far from adequate ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 8 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 9 | More than half of the money is , in any case , needed for just one project — the Channel Tunnel . |
| 10 | Chloride contamination , which stems from de-icing salts seeping into concrete coverings , was discovered in 144 of 200 bridges selected at random by department inspectors and more than half of the difficulties stemmed from poor workmanship . |
| 11 | The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability . |
| 12 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 13 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 14 | In other words , perhaps a little more than half of the variation in liability to develop Crohn 's disease is a consequence of inherited differences between individuals . |
| 15 | In the model this arm contributes more than half of the dispersion measure whereas most of the line of sight has a much lower electron density , . |
| 16 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 17 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 18 | Over half did not go beyond 10 miles , and more than half of the remainder stayed within 20 . |
| 19 | More than half of the state was again declared a disaster area in April 1991 when several days of heavy rains produced severe flooding for the second consecutive year . |
| 20 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 21 | With more than half of the contract market in the industrial and commercial sectors already , these suppliers are now extending into the markets of over 73,267 kilowatt hours [ 2,500 therms ] per annum . |
| 22 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 23 | In 1992 , achieved exports of £55.7m , accounting for more than half of the UK 's total malt exports . |
| 24 | More than half of the questionnaire was devoted to questions aimed at understanding the psychological and sociological mechanisms in risk taking . |
| 25 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 26 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 27 | For more than half of the years between 1689 and Waterloo in 1815 Britain was at war , mostly with the French . |
| 28 | In more than half of the years between 1713 and 1785 debt service took up more than 40 per cent of total revenue . |
| 29 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 30 | More than half of the men , at a recent inspection , did not know when Hitler had come to over and ‘ nobody cares any longer about it ’ . |