Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 2 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 3 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 4 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 5 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 6 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 7 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 8 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 9 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 10 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 11 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 12 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 13 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 14 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 15 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 16 | We conclude that the CL100 gene and its mouse homologue represent a new subclass of mammalian PTPase in that they show no significant similarity to any human PTPase yet discovered other than the presence of the highly conserved active-site sequence . |
| 17 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 18 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 19 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 20 | Some 16 per cent of trees lost more than a quarter of their leaves or needles last year , although Swiss forests are better off than their German neighbours , where the figure was 27 per cent [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 21 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 22 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 23 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 24 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 25 | Suddenly the skip , even though it was empty , felt heavier than a cartload of corpses being heaved off a battlefield . |
| 26 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 27 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 28 | Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old . |
| 29 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 30 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |