Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards .
2 There is a simple linear hierarchy in groups of less than about ten hens .
3 BBC Network Television director Will Wyatt said : ‘ Jonathan has done one of the toughest jobs in television for longer than almost all of his predecessors . ’
4 ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city .
5 The use of St Pancras would require trains between Scotland and the Continent to stop in London for longer than previously expected , because of the need to reverse direction in a terminal platform .
6 Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain .
7 Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain .
8 If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss .
9 The construction of villages where beds could be had by tourists for more than just the two months of July and August was advocated in suitably selected places .
10 The overplus of the Greek over the Hebrew was not regarded by Origen as less than fully canonical ; the suggestion that the overplus should be read for example of life and instruction of manners , but not to establish disputed doctrine , was left to Jerome .
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