Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This whole fucking area is sewn up tighter than a nun 's crotch , ’ Gregson grunted . |
| 2 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 3 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 4 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 5 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 6 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 7 | Half of the body moves along the ground on many little legs — the front half rears up taller than a man , with many little arms . |
| 8 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 9 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 10 | While these techniques are not sufficiently developed to use in other than a research capacity at present , they offer the hope that , in future , it will be possible to identify asymptomatic individuals by testing their stools against a panel of DNA probes . |
| 11 | Despite such wise and imaginative intervention ( by Neville Chamberlain ) the catastrophic threat was , of course , soon to become a gruesome reality ( the war broke out less than a year later ) . |
| 12 | Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s . |
| 13 | The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies . |
| 14 | Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training . |
| 15 | The company , Cuba Paquetes , sends out more than a ton of goods each week ; last week , it sent nearly two tons of medicine and clothing . |
| 16 | It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better ! |
| 17 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |
| 18 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |