Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 2 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 3 | Temperature tolerance to higher temperatures by even the hardiest rockpool creatures is within such narrow limits that if the water warms up to over 2° above that in which the animal is naturally found for more than a few hours , the animal will surely die . |
| 4 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 5 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 6 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 7 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 8 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 9 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 10 | a package is not referenced in more than the maximum allowed number of packages ( see Limitations below ) |
| 11 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 12 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 15 | The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 16 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 18 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 19 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding that the development of notions of democracy and the extension of the franchise have rendered the Queen 's participation formal and that of the Lords subservient to that of the Commons , Parliament still consists of more than the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 22 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 23 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 24 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 25 | If things never get sensitive and personal , then leaders are probably settling for less than the best . |
| 26 | Water rates will also increase by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 27 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 28 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 29 | The eighth annual Directory of Regional Brewers , Pub Operations and Cider Makers , from Robert Fleming Securities , notes that ‘ in many instances , bar prices have simply risen by more than the consumer is prepared to spend ’ . |
| 30 | He said quite , quote , in my experience people who have access to , or are offered this level of care , even if it 's even if it is started , it is rarely continued for more than a few months . |