Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years . |
| 2 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 3 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 4 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 5 | The Halifax figures , however , will be welcome news to more than a million homeowners . |
| 6 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 7 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 8 | The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , . |
| 9 | Such a sequence of failures is the nightmare of nuclear opponents but a situation on which the nuclear industry sees the remote probability of more than a million to one . |
| 10 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |