Example sentences of "more than half [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 2 | At a meeting of the Party 's Central Committee yesterday , a Politburo member , Leszek Miller , said that a nationwide plebiscite also showed that more than half of the Party 's two million members agreed that ‘ the present form of the party is outdated and can not face the new conditions ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 4 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 5 | Chloride contamination , which stems from de-icing salts seeping into concrete coverings , was discovered in 144 of 200 bridges selected at random by department inspectors and more than half of the difficulties stemmed from poor workmanship . |
| 6 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More than half of the men , at a recent inspection , did not know when Hitler had come to over and ‘ nobody cares any longer about it ’ . |
| 9 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 10 | In June 1946 , however , a referendum indicated that more than half of the Italian people wanted a republic , so Umberto left Italy . |
| 11 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 12 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 13 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 14 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 15 | Companies in which foreign capital amounted to more than half of the total capital constituted 63.1 per cent of all joint-stock companies . |
| 16 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 17 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 18 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 19 | This shortfall , in a group that still comprises more than half of the electorate , is more than enough to make the difference between defeat and a convincing Labour victory . |
| 20 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 21 | More than half of the money is , in any case , needed for just one project — the Channel Tunnel . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 24 | Its language , after 1945 , suddenly became the lingua franca of the world — the first mankind has ever known — and more than half of the world 's mail , it is said , is now in English . |
| 25 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 26 | By 1973 , the overseas offices accounted for more than half of the fee income , but the firm found itself poorly represented in the USA with only two of its nine branches established there . |
| 27 | In each of these products , Europe accounted for more than half of the world 's output ; most of the rest came from the United States . |
| 28 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 29 | In the model this arm contributes more than half of the dispersion measure whereas most of the line of sight has a much lower electron density , . |
| 30 | More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care . |