Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 2 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 3 | The results for those universities producing more than a total of 10 theses on Scottish geology between 1960 and 1983 are shown ranked as Table 5 — Changes in proportion of Scottish geology theses with time . |
| 4 | The authority aim to cut the number of patients waiting more than a year , and meet the national target of no patients waiting more than two years . |
| 5 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 6 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 7 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 8 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
| 9 | Ebullient in character , a Nobel laureate retaining more than a touch of the New York kid , Feynman is keenly interested in teaching physics as well as creating it . |
| 10 | The text of each chapter is split into sections averaging less than a page , each of which is introduced by an imaginative , succinct heading . |
| 11 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
| 12 | After a show in Groningen , several complained and the next night they played a mammoth set lasting more than a hour , boasting four encores . |
| 13 | And in a speech lasting more than an hour , he accused the Republicans of lying to keep the power , prestige and perks of presidency . |
| 14 | Temporary jobs lasting more than a week can be considered in terms of whether they open or reopen rights to Unemployment Benefit . |
| 15 | There is always some moisture around , many rocks containing more than a gram of water either crystallised or trapped in the spaces between the rock 's atoms . |
| 16 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 17 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |