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

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1 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 .
2 The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain .
3 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 .
4 The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , .
5 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 .
6 Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle .
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