Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secondary sector provided more than half of all employment between 1851 and 1921 , but ended the period , as it began , with 48 per cent . |
| 2 | The Access Fund was introduced in 1990 to support students after social security and housing benefit rights had been withdrawn , but students reckon the fund received less than half of the amount withdrawn . |
| 3 | After winning orders on April 19 to launch three further INTELSAT communications satellites between 1992 and 1994 ( with an option to launch four new generation Intelsat VII satellites ) , Arianespace ( the ESA launch company ) commanded more than half of the international commercial launch market , with 71 outstanding contracts and a backlog of 35 satellites ( worth an estimated total of $2,350 million ) still to launch . |
| 4 | Henry VI had the subjection of the southern kingdom of Aragon within his sights , and King Richard I of England , who dominated more than half of modern France , had become his quasi-vassal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thurmaston 's northerly neighbour , Syston , had 54 framework knitters , 5 framesmiths and 3 woolcombers recorded in the parish register between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , but these craftsmen formed less than half of the 128 entries . |
| 7 | Compared with 1970 , the Liberal vote nearly trebled : at over six million , this vote represented more than half of the votes going to each of the main parties against little over a sixth in 1970 . |
| 8 | More than 80 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds agreed with random breath testing and ID cards , as did more than half of the 15-17 age group . |
| 9 | Into the latter category , embracing all those groups whose annual expenditure exceeded their earnings , he put more than half of the population . |