Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.

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1 A dissection of the relationship between employment , means of production and output does not , of course , explain the boom in any other than a purely statistical sense .
2 But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer .
3 Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade .
4 Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year .
5 An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week .
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