Example sentences of "fewer [subord] [n mass] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 2 | In 1980 , fewer than 6% of the total school population were attending assisted and independent schools — yet more than a quarter of University entrants continued to be drawn from private schools . |
| 3 | In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable . |
| 4 | He describes his results as showing ’ limited ’ success ; with fewer than 50% of the mappings being correct . |
| 5 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 6 | What interested me particularly about Bennett 's work was another statistic which emerged — that in 1976 , considerably fewer than 17% of the primary schools in the study could be described as progressive and that 83% were ‘ middle of the way ’ or formal . |
| 7 | ‘ Fewer than 30% of the CEOs of America 's 150 largest corporations even try to affect the policies of their own Government , ’ claims the author . |
| 8 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 9 | Even in 1983 , with the challenge of the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance and a major redistribution of constituency boundaries , fewer than 16% of the seats changed hands among the various competing parties . |