Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As can be seen from table 6.5 , the divorce-rate for unskilled husbands is more than four times that for professionals and for the unemployed , almost five times that for the professionals . |
| 2 | The excretion of normal subjects is less than 7 g/24 hours . |
| 3 | Sovicille for shops is less than three miles away . |
| 4 | The number of inpatients treated from other districts is more than 50 per cent in one district in ten . |
| 5 | Reports from Finland , Norway , and USA suggest that the declining incidence of gastric carcinomas is mainly because of a marked decrease in tumours of intestinal type . |
| 6 | The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened . |
| 7 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 8 | This shows that the present value of £1 per year for 25 years is less than £15 when the rate of return exceeds 5 per cent per year . |
| 9 | Ramped access to public buildings is all but unknown . |
| 10 | The comparative infrequency of colonic carcinoma that we have found compared with other studies is probably because of the differences in the age distribution of the populations studied . |
| 11 | This would imply that the density of primordial black holes is less than 100 million per cubic light-year . |
| 12 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 13 | NASA 's budget for life sciences is less than $138 million a year , out of the agency 's total annual spending of $14 billion . |
| 14 | The lack of satisfactory studies on the use of activated charcoal in reducing drug absorption in poisoned patients is largely because the task is so difficult . |
| 15 | ‘ Under the new legislation , if the amount of VAT that a business incurs in relation to selling nonvatable items is less than 7,200 a year , then all the money can be reclaimed . |
| 16 | We can stir in the other two data sets , taking Poisson noise only as the null hypothesis ; again , the probability that power-law and/or Poisson noise explains all the data sets is less than 5% . |
| 17 | None of its inhabitants is more than three inches high . |
| 18 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 19 | It is important that gross and tare weighings should not be entered on a single ticket unless the interval between the two weighings is less than 24 hours . |
| 20 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 21 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 22 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 23 | You are right — 19 points is less than 20 . |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems is apparently considering taking back every nasty thing it ever said about X terminals and entering the business . |
| 25 | The total world retail value of the CD-X markets is then as follows ( in billions sterling ) . |
| 26 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 27 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 28 | The basement drawer which holds the garden with its two-foot trees , rambling roses and a magnificent pair of iron gates is less than eleven inches deep . |
| 29 | The cost of the return tickets for Diana and her sons is more than £7,000 . |
| 30 | One in three students is more than £500 in debt . |