Example sentences of "[art] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 2 | In this uncertain political environment , the less than five per cent of the 19- to 24-year-old group , the ‘ privileged elite ’ who attended institutions of higher education , returned to their studies . |
| 3 | Not considering the probability that short spacing itself may be a cause of prematurity , and in light of the high mortality of low birthweight children , it was suggested that prematurity is the cause of the high mortality at the less than one year birth interval . |
| 4 | ( Indeed , there is even a large amount of statistical information about each of the more than 500 communes . ) |
| 5 | HIRE a gardener and avoid becoming one of the 30 people the Consumers ' Association estimates will be killed in gardening accidents this year , or one of the more than 30,000 injured . |
| 6 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 7 | THE Sale and Altrincham branch of SPUC organised a market stall and public awareness day in Altrincham Precinct , to commemorate the passing of the Abortion Act on April 27 , 1967 , and the more than three and a half million lost to abortion since then . |
| 8 | To compete with the more than 2,000 commercial banks which have sprung up in Russia since then , Sberbank has to do more than teach its staff to smile . |
| 9 | OF the more than 500 known radio pulsars , only three have been detected as γ -ray sources . |
| 10 | He is being honoured by an exhibition assembling the more than 300 paintings , sculptures and decorative artworks he has donated or promised over the years . |
| 11 | The more than 4,000 items originally came from fourteen regional museums in Iraq and had been assembled in the seven main museums of Basra , Masan , Qadisiya and Kufa in the south of Iraq , and Kirkuk , Dahuk , and Suleymaniya in the north . |
| 12 | This was excavated in the nineteenth century , mainly at Vulci near Florence , and belonged to the noble Guglielmi family until 1935 , when Benedetto donated half of the more than 700 artefacts to the Pope ; the other heir died without leaving his share to the Vatican . |
| 13 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
| 14 | The gallery culminates in the more than one hundred second- to third-century carved slabs from the great Buddhist stupa at Amaravati . |
| 15 | The decisions on how much to spend , on what , and where , are made in Congress itself , through the mosaic of committees and subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives which both legislate for and make appropriations to the particular programmes operated by the more than 30 separate departments of the Federal state apparatus . |
| 16 | In addition , there are very significant audiences for the more than one hundred Independent Local Radio and BBC local stations , and new independent network , community radio and satellite services . |
| 17 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 18 | Or it you leave it open and one of the other speakers in the More than One or more of the other speakers in the conversation could decide to start to talking , or no one could erm start talking the present speaker at the moment gets another chance to carry on . |
| 19 | Of the more than ten million bound editions that bear his name as editor or author , he was proudest of the fortnightly Harmsworth 's Universal Encyclopedia ( 1920–2 ) which , under the slogan of ‘ a penny a day 's subscription ’ , sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world and was translated into six languages , including Japanese . |
| 20 | Josselin was a clergyman throughout the more than forty years covered by the diary and this , above all , gave his life its shape . |
| 21 | must be put in the context of the more than 100 per cent . |
| 22 | The 54 per cent turnout of the 4,800,000 registered voters was significantly lower than the more than 95 per cent turnout for the 1980 and 1985 elections [ see pp. 30367-75 ; 34020-21 ] . |
| 23 | Commentators blamed the low turnout on disaffection with the Solidarity-led government 's draconian economic austerity measures [ see p. 37194 ] , and on confusion about the programmes of the more than 80 competing political parties and dozens of associations . |
| 24 | Only 74 of the more than 200 people on board were rescued . |
| 25 | It was not unusual for a single employer to have to negotiate with five or more of the more than 300 trade unions . |
| 26 | One of the more than a hundred and thirty children who die that way every year . |
| 27 | The couple are pictured with some of the more than 1,000 soft toys they received from wellwishers after their son 's death . |
| 28 | Yesterday an FBI agent , Richard Swensen , said the lights , mounted on Sunday night , were a defensive measure to blind the cult members to the whereabouts of the more than 400 law enforcement officers around the compound . |
| 29 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | It could underline their responsibility for health rather than supply and encourage them to view managed units as a rather than the supplier of services . |