Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
| 2 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 3 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 4 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 7 | Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that … |
| 8 | In a deal that will create America 's second-largest coal company and second-largest copper firm , Cyprus Minerals is paying between $1 billion and $1.4 billion , and assuming more than a $1 billion in debt , for loss-making Amax . |
| 9 | She gave her mother fifteen shillings for her keep , and had more than a pound left to spend on herself . |
| 10 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |
| 11 | Cleanly shaven , smelling good and feeling better than a basketeer at a codpiece competition . |
| 12 | This remake of Jackie Mittoo 's Studio One organ classic is typical of current Taxi fare : subtle , gently rocking , and offering more than a nod to rocksteady , right down to the drum fills probably sampled from the original version . |
| 13 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 14 | His eyes , dark as bottomless pools , were hard to read , but held more than a trace of cynicism . |
| 15 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |