Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 2 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 3 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 4 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 5 | I learned from local hoteliers the staggering statistics that in less than a decade , the number of hotel rooms nearby had increased from 70 to 800 . |
| 6 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 7 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 8 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 9 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 10 | And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved |
| 11 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 12 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 13 | And in less than no time the weeks passed and the memories of that dreaded party were only a vaguely uneasy thought in the sealed-off recesses of Robyn 's mind . |
| 14 | The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark . |
| 15 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 16 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 17 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 18 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |
| 19 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |
| 20 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 21 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 22 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 23 | But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid . |
| 24 | But within less than an hour he was back on his farm . |
| 25 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |