Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be a full time job I should say , possibly one or two posts and perhaps even more than that . |
| 2 | Work content should result in target times of preferably two to three days and definitely not more than five days . |
| 3 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 4 | No matter what the origin of a site was , at some stage during its development and probably sooner rather than later — it will have acquired an economic role . |
| 5 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 6 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 7 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
| 8 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 9 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 10 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 11 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 12 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 13 | Last night Chief Insp Bryan Lowrie said it did not appear the body had been in the graveyard for any length of time and certainly no longer than a week . |
| 14 | Last night Chief Insp Bryan Lowrie said it did not appear the body had been in the graveyard for any length of time and certainly no longer than a week . |