Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 2 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 3 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 4 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 5 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 6 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 7 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 8 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 9 | The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle . |
| 10 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 11 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 12 | The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ . |
| 13 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 14 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 15 | Complementarily , if is slightly less than the output is driven into positive saturation , . |
| 16 | The later total , 601,730 , is slightly less than the figure here , 603,550 . |
| 17 | This is slightly more than the distance that most pilots would like for a spot landing at the gliding site because you need a little more time for the approach in a strange place . |
| 18 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 20 | The Brian Nelson affair and the other cases have shown that it is often more than a perception . |
| 21 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 22 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 23 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 24 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 25 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 26 | The difference in quality produced by different papers is far more than the difference in quality between the machines tested — by a mile ! |
| 27 | AIDS , after all , is far more than an epidemic . |
| 28 | The largest litter produced by any placental mammal is even more than the opossum 's — thirty-two . |
| 29 | She 's barely more than a child , he told himself again . |
| 30 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |