Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 2 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 3 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 4 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
| 5 | Welcome back : After less than a year in football management , Swindon Town boss Glenn Hoddle has been chosen to take charge of a Football League team for a top match in Italy . |
| 6 | During the breeding season , a male will establish a territory of less than a metre in diameter in a stream , and aggressively repel all intruders . |
| 7 | Championship at Hillside , he holed his final putt of less than an inch in snooker-fashion with the grip-end of his putter . |
| 8 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 9 | The only evidence as to the value of Caliban was that it was worth less than the $2.5m. in fact paid . |
| 10 | They will not complain if they believe that their property is worth more than the band in which it has been allocated . |
| 11 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 12 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
| 13 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |
| 14 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
| 15 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
| 16 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 17 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index . |