Example sentences of "more than [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 However , they are no more than a first stage .
2 Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp .
3 More than a fifth of all executives were covered last year .
4 A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm .
5 BBC And The Communities : There was a ‘ worrying difference between the world portrayed by television programmes alone — dominated by young white men — and the real world where more than a fifth of the population is retired , and more than half are female ’ .
6 Even in 1824 , André Jullien rated the ‘ light and agreeable but weak wines ’ of Beaumont-sur-Vesle no more than a fifth growth in his five-tier ranking of Champagne .
7 Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater .
8 The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 .
9 All in all , exports did not take up more than a fifth of the increase in the output of the economy as a whole .
10 A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research .
11 This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 More than a third of Britain 's bird species need urgent protection , according to a report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds .
15 Eight per cent — more than a third of all shareowners — had investments only in privatised companies .
16 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 .
17 If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners .
18 The group also rewarded Egypt for its part in the Gulf alliance by agreeing to write off more than a third of the country 's debt to foreign governments .
19 Not all of them : a black middle class has mushroomed , from about one in ten blacks in 1960 to more than a third today .
20 The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending .
21 DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m .
22 More than a third of the British — some 14 million — will soon be aged 50 or over .
23 ‘ Looking at those over 16 , we guess that about 3m of these savers are entitled to gross interest but little more than a third — 1.2m — have registered . ’
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 fewer lone mothers worked part-time , about a quarter , compared with more than a third of married mothers .
27 More than a third of single mothers are in this position .
28 Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third .
29 Although she was supported by little more than a third of the electorate ( or 40% or so of those voting ) , there seemed no prospect of ousting her from office .
30 More than a third of these conditions had been previously undetected , and two-thirds of the illnesses were manageable , while half of them were totally cleared up by treatment .
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