Example sentences of "[coord] more than half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mercosur countries , comprising a market of 192,000,000 people , had a combined gross national product of US$420,000 million , or more than half the total for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 2 | If you are male , of at least medium height , and more than half a stone overweight . |
| 3 | It found that the system had inflicted an extra 1 million unemployed on Italy and more than half a million on France , and had slowed both countries ' economic growth . |
| 4 | Despite huge debts and a still disproportionate reliance on farming , an enviable record of strong growth and low inflation matches an appetite for change that ought not to be surprising in a society where half the population is under 28 ( and more than half the nuns and priests are over 60 ) . |
| 5 | About a third of the continent and more than half the country 's farmlands are , as a result , now affected by soil erosion , and conservative estimates put the cost of ‘ repair ’ at 1 billion dollars . |
| 6 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 7 | A survey published in September 1986 by accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell revealed that out of a total of 213 British companies seeking a flotation on the OTC markets by August 1st 1986,80 raised money under the BES terms , and more than half the OTC entrants were BES schemes . |
| 8 | Most DCSLs recommend the establishment of such a committee where none exists , and more than half the Minor proposals mention such a team . |
| 9 | And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising . |
| 10 | The areas worst affected by the minute-long earthquake and its aftershocks were the provinces of Gilan and Zanjan ; all of Gilan 's coastline was affected , and more than half the total casualties were in Zanjan , notably in Roudbar ( 6,000 dead and all buildings destroyed ) . |
| 11 | Total employment is now almost half a million less than the numbers Mrs Thatcher inherited in 1979 , and more than half the jobs lost have been among the self-employed . |
| 12 | Most have no-smoking areas or designated smoking rooms , but more than half the companies still without restrictions reported less tolerance for smokers . |
| 13 | But more than half the assets of Japanese and German funds are bonds . |