Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 2 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 3 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 4 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 5 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 6 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 8 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 9 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 10 | These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music . |
| 11 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 12 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 14 | However , he is not an unmitigated success , giving the show something slightly more than the banality of most sitcoms . |
| 15 | Leapor is given 22 full pages , slightly more than the Countess of Winchilsea [ see ECWP , 194–217 and 4–26 ] . |
| 16 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 17 | ( ii ) Pipette small groups of embryos ( 3–4 ) up and down through a micropipette with a bore slightly less than the diameter of the embryos . |
| 18 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 19 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 20 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 21 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 23 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 24 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 25 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 26 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 27 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 28 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 29 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 30 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |