Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 2 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 3 | The best ( rated 5 ) will pay for itself in less than a year , while the least cost-effective ( rate 0 ) is worth doing only if you are planning to carry out other major renovation work at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm hardly going to get back into bed with him after more than a whole year . |
| 5 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 6 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 7 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 9 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 10 | The Queen 's argument was that , if something was n't done about it in less than no time , she 'd have everybody executed , all round . |