Example sentences of "than [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly children are unlikely to challenge adult opinion , being more likely to decide that they are poor readers rather than that a ‘ classic ’ is a poor book . |
| 2 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 3 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 4 | The clock has been timed to a consistent gain of less than half a minute per week during several months of sustained testing . |
| 5 | ALESSANDRO FIORIO , of Italy , despite being plagued by overheating problems in his Lancia Delta Integrale , extended his lead to more than half a minute during the second stage of the San Remo rally yesterday . |
| 6 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 7 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 8 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 9 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 10 | That sign must also be no more than half a square metre in area and all signs should be removed within two weeks of a sale being completed . |
| 11 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 12 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 13 | Abundance often lies less than half a day 's jet flight from starvation . |
| 14 | In the worst year , 1961 , more than half a million dolphins were killed . |
| 15 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 16 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 17 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 18 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 19 | Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes . |
| 20 | POLICE are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on London for today 's marathon and the League Cup final . |
| 21 | Police are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on the capital for this morning 's ADT London Marathon and the Rumbelows League Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 22 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 23 | It does , however , illustrate the wild contrasts of California , where large cities , near-deserted beaches , scorching deserts and cool redwood forests all lie within less than half a day 's drive of each other . |
| 24 | Armed with a decade of research results , Sweden and Norway proposed that the weight of sulphur falling in rain or dust on each square metre should be kept at less than half a gram ( 0.5 g/S/m² ; or 5 kg per hectare ) . |
| 25 | The plants are often preserved as dark markings on shales , and were less than half a metre in length . |
| 26 | A.J. Ayer 's Language , Truth and Logic is still a pertinent and readable work , more than half a century after its original publication . |
| 27 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
| 28 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 29 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 30 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |