Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 2 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 3 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 4 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
| 5 | The history of three German invasions in less than a century , together with the ambiguous record of the French under German occupation onwards , and the sudden , unexpected , role as one of the victorious powers , have left a mixed historical residue composed of fear , awe and mistrust . |
| 6 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 7 | In Bucharest 's university square , scene of anti-front demonstrations for more than a month now , the debate continued with more accusations of electoral malpractice by the front . |
| 8 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 9 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 10 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 11 | Averell Harriman , from his unique experience of Anglo-American relations over more than a generation , observed that while Roosevelt and Churchill had made the more far-reaching decisions , they were much less close than Macmillan and Kennedy . |
| 12 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 13 | Leases may be granted for short periods of less than a year , up to 999 years . |
| 14 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 15 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 16 | There was , for example , a 6.2% swing to the Conservatives in Labour controlled councils with less than a 10% increase in household bills , but in fact just one council , Harlow in Essex , falls into that category . |
| 17 | My village forest was not so large , about 100 hectares , but there were many big trees of more than a metre diameter . |
| 18 | A year ago , the 40,000 population achieved the unique feat of driving out the army , which has terrorised the Indian highlands for more than a decade . |
| 19 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 20 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 21 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 22 | As an extreme right-winger , I have read your recent post-apocalypse editions with more than the usual merriment . |