Example sentences of "for more than [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater . |
| 2 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 3 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 4 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 5 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 6 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |
| 7 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |