Example sentences of "for [adj] than [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge warehouse centres , already a major success in the US , will sell high-quality clothes , including some designer brands , for less than half the price charged by leading chain stores . |
| 2 | The huge warehouse centres , already a hit in the US , will sell high-quality clothes , including some designer brands , for less than half the price charged by leading chain stores . |
| 3 | AV 4300s can be upgraded with a second CPU for £5,400 , doubling the power from 29 to 58 MIPS for less than half the cost of the original machine , according to DG . |
| 4 | For instance , in the South-East region ( as defined in the relevant edition of the Times Guide to the House of Commons ) the Liberals won none of the 40 seats , Labour took only three , whilst the Conservatives — for less than half the total constituency votes — bagged all the rest . |
| 5 | Until recently the profit margin has been tight , with an implant selling in Britain for less than half the price charged in the rest of Europe and the United States . |
| 6 | Before I turn to the outcome of the competition , I remind the House that the contract with the shipbuilder is for less than half the total estimated cost of the frigates . |
| 7 | They would build you a made to measure rod for less than half the price of a shop-bought article . |
| 8 | The water issues accounted for more than half the business on the heaviest days trading since January . |
| 9 | The plan is to create a market of 190m people , accounting for more than half the GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lack of capital was a limiting factor for more than half the family farmers . |
| 12 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 13 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 14 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 15 | The aim is to reduce the ranks of the young unemployed who now account for more than half the nation 's two million jobless and to give them an added skill which will help them find work when the training is over . |
| 16 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
| 17 | ( 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 ; |
| 18 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 19 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 20 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 21 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 22 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 23 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 24 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham County Council group traffic manager for road safety , said incidents in Darlington accounted for more than half the total cycling accidents in County Durham last year . |
| 26 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |
| 27 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |