Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 2 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 3 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 4 | As Father Johnson approached the altar , the man for whose soul he prayed was writing a letter , not more than a couple of miles away . |
| 5 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |
| 6 | Except that , under the Broadcasting Act , passed last November , not more than a quarter of the music INR1 broadcasts can be ‘ pop ’ . |
| 7 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music . |
| 10 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 11 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 12 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 14 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 15 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 16 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 19 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 20 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 21 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 22 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 23 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 24 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 27 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 28 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 29 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 30 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |