Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [det] than [art] [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 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 4 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 5 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 8 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has five forward and five reverse speeds , is highly manoeuvrable , and weighs less than the battery that powers it . |
| 11 | She gave her mother fifteen shillings for her keep , and had more than a pound left to spend on herself . |
| 12 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His eyes , dark as bottomless pools , were hard to read , but held more than a trace of cynicism . |
| 16 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |