Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 2 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 3 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |
| 4 | Value for far more than the length and a half he beat Grand Applause there , he will relish the step up in trip for the Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes . |
| 5 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |
| 6 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 7 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 8 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 9 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |
| 10 | In addition , there may well be a requirement that any sub-letting is to be at not less than the rent in the lease , and that any sub-lease is to contain similar rent reviews to those in the lease . |