Example sentences of "weigh [art] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 2 | Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather . |
| 3 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 4 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |
| 5 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 6 | Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault . |