Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 2 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 3 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 4 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 5 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 6 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 7 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 8 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 9 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 10 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |
| 11 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |