Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Three people have been charged with handling stolen goods after police seized more than a quarter of million pounds worth of luxury cars hidden in farm buildings . |
| 32 | He 's perfectly competent , well supplied with money always , and it 's no more than a quarter past nine . |
| 33 | After a boom period in the 1950s and 1960s , when real wages grew by more than a quarter between 1950 and 1965 , and when earnings rose by more than 40 per cent , the later 1960s ushered in years of intermittent depression . |
| 34 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
| 35 | If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial . |
| 36 | In this way the choice between a particular and a universal interpretation of the concept of social representation can involve more than a preference for one son of definition over another . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered . |
| 39 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 40 | Given the amount of matter in the vicinity of Sgr A , an outburst is not an unreasonable expectation , although since its discovery in 1974 , the luminosity has not changed by more than a factor of two . |
| 41 | But it is no more than a seed in 1215 . |
| 42 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 43 | Both Hammerschmidt and Dedekind , and indeed Heinrich Albert , were far surpassed in variety and creative power by a young pupil of Samuel Scheidt , Adam Krieger ( 1634–66 ) who published in his lifetime little more than a collection of fifty Arien for one to three voices with string ritornelli ( Leipzig , 1657 ) , though posthumous Neue Arien appeared in 1667 ( augmented in 1676 ) . |
| 44 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 45 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 46 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 47 | to spend more than an average of 90 days per year in the UK for four consecutive tax years |
| 48 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 49 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 50 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 51 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 52 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 53 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |
| 54 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
| 55 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 56 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 57 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 58 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 59 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 60 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |