Example sentences of "than [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracts other than contracts of sale of goods , are not governed by the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
| 2 | Authorizing expenses , travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination . |
| 3 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 4 | More than 50% of oat bran fibre is water-soluble compared to eight per cent of what bran fibre . |
| 5 | This is consistent with previous studies which have shown that more than 90% of gastrin in serum consists of G17 and G34 in both duodenal ulcer patients and healthy volunteers . |
| 6 | Oil accounts for more than 50% of the gross domestic product and more than 90% of export revenue . |
| 7 | Discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , or class , may in some circumstances be more important influences on psychologists ' work than discourses of gender . |
| 8 | It was estimated that a lattice network of sone 80 transmitters would give nationwide coverage , with more than 80% of road traffic covered from only 20 stations . |
| 9 | It says more than 80% of Unix workstations shipped last year went to sectors where they are most commonly used for technical applications . |
| 10 | Although the Bank of Scotland has been established by no less a Protestant champion than William of Orange , this nervousness led George I , or rather his advisers , to doubt that bank 's allegiance . |
| 11 | In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing . |
| 12 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 13 | A fixed date action is an action which includes a claim for any relief other than payment of money , eg the recovery of goods or land , or an equitable remedy such as an injunction . |
| 14 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 15 | Although there is no reference to crime in the Act of 1978 which corresponds to the reference in section 6 of the Act of 1935 , it is hardly to be supposed that Parliament , while creating a considerable extension of the right of contribution in cases other than cases of tort , nevertheless intended to narrow the right to contribution previously given to tortfeasors by the Act of 1935 . |
| 16 | Two studies have shown that general practitioners can deal with a high proportion of night calls on the telephone , but Sheldon and Harris found that fewer than 3% of night calls received by two deputising services were dealt with by giving advice by telephone without a visit . |
| 17 | Higher public spending , together with lower tax revenues , mean that the UK is now outside the Maastricht target range for EC fiscal convergence , namely a PSBR no higher than 3% of GDP . |
| 18 | An alternative form of grafting that unites one or more buds , rather than piece of stem , to the stock . |
| 19 | Apart from the assumed humanitarian philosophies of most US politicians and citizens , nothing is better designed to drive poor countries into the arms of the communists than shortages of food . |
| 20 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 21 | One may easily state , for instance , that no more than 25% of fiction funds will be spent on light fiction , but the statement is unhelpful unless all parties involved will readily recognize an item of light fiction when they see one . |
| 22 | Both Munich Re and Allianz have stakes in a holding company which has more than 25% of MAN . |
| 23 | — A lifetime prevalence of social phobia has been identified in more than 25% of anorexia nervosa patients . |
| 24 | Postcards are labour-intensive , difficult to maintain and staff may find them intensely irritating to serve to customers , but to be able to generate over 20% of total sales from less than 10% of floor space , gives a turnover per square foot that most of us can only dream of . |
| 25 | The public-sector deficit has swollen to more than 10% of GDP . |
| 26 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 27 | Table 1 gives the results of the analysis of 105 neuritic plaques in stained tissue from the temporal cortex and hippocampus of five clinically and pathologically characterized cases of AD and two aged controls , and shows that less than 10% of plaque cores contain aluminium deposits , which are usually co-localized with silicon . |
| 28 | Although Africa 's gas reserves are far larger than Europe 's , African production is less than one-fifth of European production and in 1983 indigenous consumption accounted for less than 10% of energy demand . |
| 29 | Findings profound involuntary weight loss ( more than 10% of baseline body weight ) plus other chronic diarrhoea ( lasting > 1 month ) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings ( e.g. cancer , tuberculosis , cryptosporidiosis or other specific enteritis ) . |
| 30 | As organizational head of all CIA operations on the North American continent , Hayman literally had greater power than heads of State or European monarchy . |