Example sentences of "[is] [det] than [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare . |
| 2 | Any service is possible in PR work which is more than half the fun of doing public relations . |
| 3 | The distance from Panama to Palawan is more than half the way around the world . |
| 4 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 5 | There is more than half the world 's coal — much of it in Manchuria ; half the world 's uranium — much of it in Australia ; half the world 's natural gas ; nine-tenths of the silk , 67 per cent of the cotton , 63 per cent of the wool ; huge iron mines , great deposits of silver and , it has lately been found , a girdle of epithermal gold lodged in the volcanic rocks from the Solomon Islands to northern Japan . |
| 6 | Self-Portrait Jumping contains ten tracks ( although one , Dreamachine , is more than half an hour long ) . |
| 7 | Sealdah is less than half a mile from the Bowbazaar district , where a cache of explosives blew up on Wednesday , killing at least 66 people . |
| 8 | In some cases there are definite indications of periodicity ; thus Beta Pegasi , in the Flying Horse , has a period of about 36 days , though the range is less than half a magnitude . |
| 9 | Sumo is less than half the price of an equivalent Sun box , runs Solaris 2.1 and comes with support for up to 64Mb RAM , three SBus slots and a Sun equivalent GX graphics accelerator card . |
| 10 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 11 | Sumo is less than half the price of an equivalent Sun Microsystems Inc box , runs Solaris 2.1 and comes with support for up to 64Mb memory , three SBus slots and a Sun-equivalent GX graphics accelerator board . |
| 12 | This is less than half the response rate obtained in the first survey ( 91 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Ben Nevis was a long drag ; Snowdon is less than half the height and there you cheat by starting at 300 metres . |
| 14 | This figure is less than half the number of cases reported by one clinic , out of thirty odd , in London for that year . |
| 15 | That 's less than half the story . |