Example sentences of "[det] [conj] half [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The December turnout was only 3,700,000 , of 14,200,000 eligible voters , or little more than half the number who had voted in a referendum in May in favour of the establishment of the Assembly [ see p. 37450 ] . |
| 2 | As a single group the pieds noirs represent more than half the number of farmers in France ! |
| 3 | The list shows less than half the number for the first volume . |
| 4 | This figure is less than half the number of cases reported by one clinic , out of thirty odd , in London for that year . |
| 5 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |