Example sentences of "by [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 2 | So the strike , which has reduced total coal output by less than a third , will reduce all energy supplies by only 6% . |
| 3 | Dr Devious had finished twelve lengths behind St Jovite in the Irish Derby and they were separated by less than a nostril yesterday . |
| 4 | Over the decade from 1960 to 1970 the rate of all offences committed by females in this age group doubled , while the comparable male rate increased by less than a half . |
| 5 | Tolerance was voiced by less than a sixth of male interviewees and less than a tenth of the female . |
| 6 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 7 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 8 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 9 | Sales — mostly of properties in the North-west of England , so far one of the more resilient areas in the slump - fell by more than a third , from 502 homes to 316 . |
| 10 | For all the talk of Prime Ministerial government , one must remember the unequal battle which any incumbent , when confronted by more than a score of powerful departments , faces . |
| 11 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 12 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 13 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 14 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 15 | Naïve unsophisticated statements such as these marked a regeneration which perhaps must be experienced by more than a handful of prisoners if we are to care enough about civilization to want to save it . |
| 16 | As far as Ipswich is concerned , with the exception of the community psychiatric nurse , no one service was received by more than a minority of either sample . |
| 17 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 18 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 19 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 20 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 21 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 22 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 23 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 24 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 25 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 26 | Walker , for example , reports on Pavlov 's success in training one dog to salivate to middle C , whether played on a clarinet , tuning fork , or organ pipe , but to no other note varying by more than a semitone however played ; whereas another animal reacted to any notes but only when reproduced by one particular instrument ( 1983 : 246 ) . |
| 27 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 28 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 29 | Given the amount of matter in the vicinity of Sgr A , an outburst is not an unreasonable expectation , although since its discovery in 1974 , the luminosity has not changed by more than a factor of two . |
| 30 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |