Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 2 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 3 | Actually , I had more than a hand in it ; I designed all of Crate 's new tube line , even though it does n't have my name on it . |
| 4 | This superb musical partnership , which began less than a year ago , is now firmly established — indeed Kieran and Frances have just completed their first album which is due for release in the New Year . |
| 5 | This handmade table , which took less than a day to put together , made a great drink stand for the garden and conservatory |
| 6 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 7 | He was speaking after a meeting with Sir Patrick Mayhew which lasted more than an hour . |
| 8 | The next New Mums group was at her house ( she lived less than a mile away ) and she had phone me to encourage me to go . |
| 9 | She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings . |
| 10 | Mrs Hughes , who waited more than a century for some of the most exciting times of her life , passed away peacefully in her sleep at the St David 's Nursing Home , Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 11 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 12 | Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance . |
| 13 | ‘ George , ’ I said , ‘ we agreed less than an hour ago that there would not be a press announcement . ’ |
| 14 | We thought we detected more than a hint of irony in this answer , and we suspected that they were smugglers . |
| 15 | I was wearing a shirt of green silk loose round the wrists and my green linen culottes — I had found they creased less than a skirt when sitting in a coach . |
| 16 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 18 | They jumped less than a week later , at Luton Hoo on 28 May 1941 , under cover of a supposed air-raid jointly organized by XU and some elements of the Luftwaffe . |
| 19 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 20 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 21 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 22 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 23 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 24 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 25 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 26 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 27 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 28 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 29 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 30 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |