Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Egyptian government has declared open war on Muslim militants , ordering police to shoot to kill and plunging the country into its worst political violence for more than a decade . |
| 2 | On May 5 Mujjaddedi , who had already indicated that he might remain as interim president for longer than the specified two months , appointed a Cabinet ( most members in an acting capacity ) in a move regarded by some commentators as a violation of the Peshawar Accord . |
| 3 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 4 | The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 5 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 6 | Their success attracted a worldwide following as the Lisbon Lions and their successors dominated Scottish football for more than a decade . |
| 7 | Time spent outside this range for longer than the 90th percentile in normal subjects implies an abnormal pH exposure . |
| 8 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 9 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 10 | In Sussex and Hampshire fieldwork has revealed that no village can claim uninterrupted development from earlier than the middle Saxon period . |
| 11 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 12 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |
| 13 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 14 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 15 | As we announced in the Budget , no one 's Uniform Business rate will go up this year by more than the rate of inflation — 4.1 per cent . |
| 16 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 17 | Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it ! |
| 18 | One of the principal problems facing anglers fishing on Benbecula and the Uists , is knowing where to begin ; there are so many fine waters to choose from and never enough time to do proper justice to more than a handful . |
| 19 | You can see there has n't been a woman in this house for more than a week . |
| 20 | In Scotland the rise in the number of long-term unemployed rose by less than the rest of Britain . |
| 21 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 22 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 23 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not exaggerating when I say that if we do not meet this challenge now , we shall be in serious trouble within less than a year . |
| 25 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 26 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 27 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 30 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |