Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 2 | To give details of the internal organisation of each of the foreign offices of Europe , and of the endless changes in detail which took place over more than a century , would be wearisome and repetitive . |
| 3 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 4 | After this , Peter attended counselling for more than a year . |
| 5 | At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit . |