Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 2 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 3 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 4 | they 're so long erm they always seem colder than a caravan although it did n't |
| 5 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 7 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 8 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |
| 9 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 10 | If neural networks are ever to become more than a lab curiosity with the odd exotic application in the real world , Intel Corp 's new Ni1000 chip , developed with Providence , Rhode Island-based Nestor Inc should provide the breakthrough . |
| 11 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 12 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 13 | Not only does a diesel engine consume less of the world 's oil resources , but — provided it is regularly serviced — also lasts longer than a petrol engine . |
| 14 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 15 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 16 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 17 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 18 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 19 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 20 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 21 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 22 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 23 | Mr Lang replied : ‘ I deeply sympathise with Mrs Byers , whose late husband unfortunately died less than a month before the bill was introduced , but hope that she will appreciate that wherever the cut-off point is set , someone will fall just outside it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 25 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 26 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 27 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 28 | At a rough estimate , staff are currently recycling less than a quarter of the paper LASMO buys . |
| 29 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 30 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |