Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 2 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 3 | The complex was rebuilt after a firebomb attack more than a year ago , and its owners certainly have made the most of the opportunity . |
| 4 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 5 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 6 | This superb musical partnership , which began less than a year ago , is now firmly established — indeed Kieran and Frances have just completed their first album which is due for release in the New Year . |
| 7 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 8 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 9 | The next New Mums group was at her house ( she lived less than a mile away ) and she had phone me to encourage me to go . |
| 10 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 11 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
| 12 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 13 | It all started more than a decade ago from this barn on an isolated farm in South Shropshire . |
| 14 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 15 | One resident said : ‘ We could hear the music and we live more than a mile away . |
| 16 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 17 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 18 | The fighting , I am told , reflected more than a concern just with forms of worship but with an assertion by this small , proud country of its own independence of spirit . |
| 19 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 20 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 21 | They jumped less than a week later , at Luton Hoo on 28 May 1941 , under cover of a supposed air-raid jointly organized by XU and some elements of the Luftwaffe . |
| 22 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |