Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [det] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 2 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 3 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 4 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 5 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 6 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 7 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 10 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 11 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 12 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 13 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 14 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 15 | It takes at least two terms even to become familiar with a new job but , after that , few management changes can be put off for more than a year . |
| 16 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |
| 17 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 18 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |
| 19 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 20 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 21 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 22 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 23 | Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman knows that if we compare the position now with that of 10 years ago — at the same stage of the economic cycle — we see that manufacturing output is up by a quarter , manufacturing investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half , and manufactured exports are up by almost three quarters . |
| 25 | Some struggled against her , but few held out for more than a moment or two . |
| 26 | So he was pretty disappointed when I went to see ALIEN 3 ( Cert 18 ; General ) and walked out after less than an hour , bored beyond belief . |
| 27 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 28 | She 'll have to dash around all day , collect the children from different parties and then get ready to go out in less than an hour . |
| 29 | Sunderland 's allocation of three and a half thousand tickets sold out in less than an hour . |
| 30 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |