Example sentences of "than [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For student committees a quorum would rarely be less than one-third nor more than two-thirds of the members entitled to attend . |
| 2 | One important political ingredient giving shape to the results in the districts was the failure of the Democrats to contest more than two-thirds of the vacancies , compared with the Alliance 's presence in over 85% of wards in 1986 . |
| 3 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 4 | Although this merger initially appeared as a shrewd means of transforming a minority government into a government which commanded more than two-thirds of the seats in the legislature , it also produced a considerable level of public disquiet over its legitimacy . |
| 5 | Newly-wed Sandeep Gill , 23 admitted she received more than 300 of the notes at her wedding in Woolwich , South London , last week . |
| 6 | More than 30 of the victims were women . |
| 7 | Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana said he would accept no more than 45 of the changes demanded , so the assembly voted to delay the legislation for fresh negotiations with Brussels . |
| 8 | No fewer than 708 of the convicts ( 75 per cent ) had been aged 31 or over , and 573 ( 61 per cent ) had been illiterate . |
| 9 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 10 | The membership of a licensing board is to consist of not less than one-quarter of the members of the area island or district council with a minimum membership of five ( subs . |
| 11 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 12 | The success rate for calculating time intervals depended on whether there were figures other than zero in the units column of the minutes . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but in more than three-quarters of the murders committed in the UK , the murderer knew the victim already — and quite liked them . ’ |
| 15 | As each subject may have used more than one of the strategies when evaluating a person , in order to calculate inter-rater reliability two different judges decided individually which strategy they believed the individuals had described . |
| 16 | No channel may be input from nor output to by more than one of the processes . |
| 17 | These are the characteristics of the International Stock Exchange 's own Taurus programme rather than one of the signs of the zodiac . |
| 18 | Indeed ideally it will employ more than one of the skills which one has recognized as being competitive strengths . |
| 19 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 20 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 21 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 22 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 23 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 24 | It is not an uncommon circumstance for us to be the appointed auditors of more than one of the companies involved in a transaction . |
| 25 | That are travelling the U K right now on behalf of more than one of the companies . |
| 26 | Payment shall not be made to the Insured Person under more than one of the benefits ( a ) to ( c ) in respect of the same injury or of the same period of disablement . |
| 27 | Above all , very few of them meet more than one of the criteria used in the inner-city for measuring network strength , and the essential reason for this is that their network ties are not mainly territorial . |
| 28 | It is useless to speculate why he chose him , rather than one of the monks of Bec or Caen who had been at Canterbury throughout Lanfranc 's tenure of the archbishopric . |
| 29 | If the new firm is able to accept instructions , it must take all proper steps to erect the " Chinese Wall " to preserve the confidentiality of the client 's affairs : the stringency and complexity of this pretty well rules out any possibility that instructions could be accepted from more than one of the clients involved . |
| 30 | Of course any single checkerboard solution of an important issue will produce more instances of injustice than one of the alternatives and fewer than the other . |