Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 2 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 3 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 4 | But Best 's lucrative after-dinner speaking engagements are more about fun than the money involved , he insists . |
| 5 | They 'll be there in less than an hour . ’ |
| 6 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 7 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 8 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 9 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
| 10 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 11 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 12 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 13 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 14 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 15 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 16 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |
| 17 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 18 | The application for an export licence was withdrawn as each leaf was now worth less than the limit of £35,000 , beyond which an export licence is required . |
| 19 | But lovely Leslie soon lifted the lid on her co-star 's antics for the camera — and made it clear she was there in more than an ad-visor-y capacity . |