Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 2 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 3 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 4 | Norwegian rules generally forbid foreign investors to own more than a third of an insurer . |
| 5 | As has been indicated , some provisions implied more than a customs union : membership of the EEC meant a commitment to the free movement of both capital and labour , a common investment policy , and the coordination and rationalisation of social welfare goals . |
| 6 | This enterprise lasted less than a year . |
| 7 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 8 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 9 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 10 | Since these have to do with complex processes of political control and relationships between industrial relations actors and the state , an adequate understanding of them and their historical context requires more than a superficial acquaintance with the countries concerned . |
| 11 | In burns — any third degree burn ( see below ) , any second degree burn ( blistering and loss of the top surface of the skin — very sore and painful ) occurring on sensitive skin ( face , hands , genitals ) or second degree burn larger than a hand size occurring anywhere else . |
| 12 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 13 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 14 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 15 | The Abbots united for the inevitable photograph bear more than a passing resemblance to a sports team . |
| 16 | In the Netherlands , the task of refining and extending the revolutionary concept of the Woonerf and separately applying its most valuable elements continues more than a decade after its inception . |
| 17 | A good-looking , pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin , and wrote just as well . |
| 18 | Poor little Johann survived less than a month . |
| 19 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 20 | Café Quick meals take less than a minute to heat up |
| 21 | Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player . |
| 22 | As the ash dries hard it is dug out for sale for the construction industry , yet another habitat is created With the layers of rock compacted over millions of years , this soft ash forms perfect artificial gifts for burrowing animals like rabbits For this young fox , what better place to practise digging than a soft cliff of ash , watched nervously by potential lunch Another predator not necessarily fond of the ash , but very keen on the animals that it attracts , is the polecat ferret Once used by poachers many of these agile hunters are now wild and range freely over the rough ground near power stations in search of prey Round at the top of the ash are the nest borrows of one of Britain 's rarest bird , the sand martin the monitor of this power station has ensured special in there so the birds can find ideal nest sites . |
| 23 | The report also warns drinkers to expect big differences in prices between locals in the same town , with upmarket pubs in prime locations charging more than a no-frills bar on the outskirts . |
| 24 | In all , sixty-seven of the tenants named in this manorial survey held less than a half-yardland . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 29 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 30 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |