Example sentences of "than [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 2 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 3 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 4 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 5 | as well as a host of other academic successes — but neither Arnold or his successor , Dixon , ever took more than eight boys a time and most of them carefully selected — few were born deaf . |
| 6 | The underlying balance-of-payments problems stemmed essentially from the scale of government overseas expenditure and foreign investment , these amounting to more than eight times the aggregate current account deficit for 1946–50 ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 7 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 8 | 1 Prepare a script which shall meet the following requirements : the complete typescript to make a book of not more than 32 pages a complete list of any textual or illustrative copyrighted material to be included together with full information on source of such material supply a complete art brief for any illustrations required |
| 9 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 10 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
| 11 | And no longer will they be allowed to take more than 500 roubles a month ( about twice the average monthly wage ) out of their bank accounts . |
| 12 | Heavier caring responsibilities were clearly associated with lower rates of employment ; only about one-fifth of working-age women providing more than fifty hours a week care for an elderly person were employed , compared with two-thirds of married women and half of all single ( never-married ) women caring for less than twenty hours a week ( McLaughlin , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 14 | More than 70 firms a day are going bust . |
| 15 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |
| 16 | It was travelling at more than 70 miles an hour . |
| 17 | THE developers of a new restaurant at the popular Falls of Shin , where more than 50,000 tourists a year go to watching salmon leaping over the rocks , are to be asked to amend their planning application . |
| 18 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 19 | Between them they 're turning out more than 300 puppets a day . |
| 20 | More than 300 casualties a day were reported in the capital 's hospitals . |
| 21 | Those are not children who smoke one or two cigarettes a week to prove to their contemporaries that they are older than they are ; if they are boys , they smoke more than 56 cigarettes a week and , if they are girls , more than 49 cigarettes a week . |
| 22 | For most modules the mean mark will normally be in the low to middle 50s and if there are more than 30 students the standard deviation will tend to be between 10 and 20 . |
| 23 | Only eight consultants held one to one teaching or tutorials for their house officers and most consultants estimated their total teaching time to be less than 30 minutes a week . |
| 24 | Viewers thus went from a choice of less than 30 hours a week in 1946 to more than 400 in the late 1980s . |
| 25 | They 're made out of tubular steel and toughened perspex and are powered by an electric motor that spins the laserball more than 30 times a minute . |
| 26 | Attempts to prove that canals were safer than railways , and , ‘ a man could not live at speeds greater than 30 miles an hour ’ , were doomed to failure . |
| 27 | Aberdeen .... 1 Celtic ...... 1 AS A CHEEKY teenager who was capable of scoring more than 30 goals a season , Charlie Nicholas earned the nickname the Cannonball Kid . |
| 28 | This one in front has obviously got a fear of going more than forty miles an hour that 's for sure oh |
| 29 | Petrol prices are set to go up again ; traders in the world oil market still worrying over a war in the Gulf , today pushed their prices to their highest for ten years , at more than forty dollars a barrel . |
| 30 | He was under tremendous pressure and on the go for more than 12 hours a day . |